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Trump the Diplomat

On May 6 2025 the Donald Trump administration announced it signed a peace deal with Houthi rebels in Yemen. This arrangement bypassed the Israeli government, much like negotiations with Russia bypassed Ukraine. The agreement is the US will no longer bomb Houthi targets and the Houthis will no longer attack US shipping. There is no mention of other nations’ ships or attacks on Israel. This point was highlighted when the Houthi Theocracy launched a missile at Israel while Trump spoke in Saudi Arabia earlier today. This launch was a show to accent American weakness and possibly encourage anti Israeli actors.

This is similar to Vladimir Putin‘s habitual breaking of cease fires negotiated by the US in the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.

We should have understood better that the Houthis were not an oppressed minority suffering human-rights violations at the hands of other Arab states, but rather a proxy for Iran seeking to undermine their stability. In recent years, the Houthis launched numerous drone and missile attacks against Saudi Arabia and the UAE, targeting civil airports (including Abu Dhabi International Airport), desalination plants, and oil infrastructure. After the savage Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas assault on Israel, the Houthis played their role in the “ring of fire” strategy by closing the Red Sea to international shipping and periodically attacking Israel itself. All this was directly tied to the Iranian-backed war against Israel, not some isolated outburst by an unrelated terrorist group. Washington Examiner

Donald Trump has been pursuing negotiations with Iran over it’s nuclear production capabilities. The Israelis fear the Ayatollah Khamenei‘s Iranian Theocracy has the capability to manufacture a nuclear weapon now and may already have. The Israeli government was waived off on their intent to strike the Iranian nuclear production facilities by Donald Trump. A similar thing happened after Iranian strikes against Saudi ships in September of 2019 during Trump’s first term (Abqaiq-Khurais attack).

The Israeli leader has been frustrated for weeks with Trump’s refusal to support military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and his decision to instead try to reach a deal aimed at blocking Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, according to the two U.S. officials, the two Middle Eastern diplomats and two other people with knowledge of the tensions NBCNews

The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) certified Iran’s compliance up until 2019, but subsequent breaches strained the agreement. In a 2020 IAEA report, Iran was said to have breached the JCPOA and faced criticism from signatories. In 2021, Iran faced scrutiny regarding its assertion the program was exclusively for peaceful purposes, especially with references to growth in satellites, missiles, and nuclear weapons… In October 2023, an IAEA report estimated Iran had increased its uranium stockpile 22 times over the 2015 agreed JCPOA limit. In the last months of the Biden administration, new intelligence persuaded US officials that Iran was exploring a cruder design for a nuclear weapon that could enable Iran to manufacture a usable nuclear weapon in a matter of months Wikipedia

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