Remember the Signal chat ‘scandal’? Well, Iran doesn’t these days, as both the New York Times and the Economic Times acknowledged over the weekend. The use of Signal for sensitive discussions was a mistake, but the policy and strategy employed by Donald Trump and his administration have already begun to pay dividends in Yemen — and in Iran.
In less than three months, Trump has turned the situation in the Red Sea entirely around, the Economic Times reported on Saturday. The deadly strikes on the Houthis in Yemen — and Trump’s public pledge to hold Iran directly responsible for Houthi attacks — has Tehran rapidly restrategizing. They may be cutting off aid to their last proxy in the region in an attempt to deal with the threat of direct action from the US:
Iran leaves Houthis hanging as Trump intensifies pressure: Are we headed for a wider Middle East war?…
