00:00If the Houthis do join the fray, what happens then?
00:04Well, the Houthis will currently have much less capabilities than they used to,
00:11and that's due to the losses suffered by Iran in the war so far. Iran has lost all its major
00:21ships,
00:22and some of these ships used to be in the Red Sea, providing the Houthis with intelligence.
00:30on the whereabouts and the track of all the ships going in and out, which helped the Houthis to
00:40target many of them. This capability is not there. The Houthis also lost a lot of their assets
00:48in strikes carried out by the US, by the Europeans, by Israel over the past few months or over the
00:57past
00:57year. And now with the blockade on Iran, Iran has been unable to send any supplies of missiles and
01:12drones and spare parts to the Houthis as they used to. In the past few months, just once or twice,
01:22an Iranian commercial plane was able to land in Yemen, and it's believed to have carried some equipment,
01:35but still, it would not be enough to provide the Houthis with the capabilities they used to have.
01:43So the Houthis now have a very tough question, which is that if they commit to threatening the
01:51navigation in the Bab al-Mandeb, they're going to commit themselves to a showdown with the US and the
01:59Europeans and the international community, which will not tolerate this action.
02:05And without the steady flow of supplies from the Iranians, they would be facing a question of an
02:19existential threat. They will be committing suicide. So they're being very careful as to measuring their
02:31steps and throwing themselves into this fight with the limited resources they have at the moment.
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