Yemen’s Houthis will target American oil companies, including Exxon Mobil and Chevron, despite an earlier truce agreed with President Donald Trump’s administration to not attack US-linked ships sailing in the Red Sea and the wider Gulf of Aden, the Iran-backed terror group says.
The Sanaa-based Humanitarian Operations Coordination Center (HOCC), which liaises between Houthi forces and commercial shipping operators and is associated with the Houthi military, sanctions 13 US companies, nine executives, and two vessels.
Entities designated by the Houthis “shall be dealt with in accordance with the principle of confrontation,” HOCC says on its website of what it will do regarding those deemed as being under their sanctions.
The announcement is a notice that the companies, which also include ConocoPhillips and Diamond S Shipping, are deemed hostile entities that are open to attack.
The companies do not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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