Yemen Government Warns of Houthi Threat to ‘World’s Digital Infrastructure’

Yemen Government Warns of Houthi Threat to ‘World’s Digital Infrastructure’

Christine Williams

Now there are concerns the Houthis could respond by targeting the internet and transmission of financial data.

It is estimated that 17 percent of global internet traffic travels via underwater fiber optic cables in the Red Sea.”

Yemen’s government warned that the Red Sea is ‘one of the three most important meeting points for cables’ on the globe and the Houthis pose a ‘serious threat to one of the most important digital infrastructures in the world.’

The Houthis posted a map on their social media channel, “showing the routes of various cables through the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and the Arabian Sea”, “accompanied with the ominous message: ‘It seems that Yemen is in a strategic location, as internet lines that connect entire continents – not only countries – pass near it.’”

This isn’t an idle warning. The nuclear-threshold Iranian regime backs the Houthis, and Iran aims for regional hegemony, as well as power over the entire Islamic world. Iran identifies its greatest enemies, of course, as Israel and America.

America and Israel are now engaged in a proxy war with Iran, as the regime buys time, prepares, and strategizes. If Houthis are not controlled in the Red Sea, the war is destined to escalate. Imagine the possibility of “a fifth” of the world’s Internet going down. The world economy would collapse and full-scale war would be inevitable.

Houthi jihad warriors who are humbly living in the mountains of Yemen do not have much to lose, and, they believe, a great deal to gain in the name of Islam.