The Iran-backed Houthi terrorist organization has announced that it is prepared to get involved in the conflict raging across the Middle East and fight the US and Israel.
The primarily Yemen-based Houthis are one of several terrorist organizations that are part of Iran's 'Axis of Resistance,' which also includes the Lebanon-based Hezbollah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip and Shiite militias in Iraq.
On Thursday, the leader of the Houthis, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, announced: 'Regarding military escalation and action, our fingers are on the trigger, ready to respond at any moment should developments warrant it.'
And in a phone interview with the New York Times, a senior political official for the Houthis named Mohammed al-Bukhaiti said: 'The expansion of the conflict to include other countries, including Yemen, is only a matter of time.'
'Our hands are on the trigger,' al-Bukhaiti added, echoing the statement of his organization's leader. The official slogan of the Houthis is as follows: 'Allah is Greater. Death to America. Death to Israel. Curse on the Jews. Victory to Islam.'
Nadwa Al-Dawsari, an expert on Yemen and an associate fellow at the Middle East Institute, explained to Fox News why the Houthis have just begun saber-rattling and have not yet joined the conflict. 'The reason why the Houthis have not intervened is they are the last line of resistance for the axis. Especially after other axis members were degraded,' Al-Dawsari told the outlet.
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