Financial Times: UK hints at imminent military action against Houthis over Red Sea attacks
John Paul Rathbone in London
UK defence secretary Grant Shapps has hinted that military retaliation against the Houthis could be imminent, as he accused Iran of helping the Yemen-based militant group target ships in the Red Sea.
Shapps said on Wednesday that he was in regular contact with Saudi Arabia and the UK’s other regional partners and “we are all agreed” that the Houthi attacks “cannot continue, and we won’t allow this to continue. So watch this space.”
He did not specify what form the retaliation could take but said “what happened last night”, when the Houthis launched their largest drone and missile attack on Red Sea shipping on Tuesday, changed the situation “and you can reach the natural conclusions upon that.”