{"id":9817,"date":"2023-12-31T15:05:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T15:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=9817"},"modified":"2023-12-31T15:05:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T15:05:39","slug":"cameron-iran-to-prevent-houthi-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/31\/cameron-iran-to-prevent-houthi-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron: Iran to Prevent Houthi Attacks\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s foreign minister said on Sunday that he told his Iranian counterpart that Tehran shares responsibility for preventing attacks by Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthis in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to [Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian] today about Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, which threaten innocent lives and the global economy,\u201d Foreign Secretary David Cameron wrote on the social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made clear that Iran shares responsibility for preventing these attacks given their long-standing support to the Houthis,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis have been targeting vessels in the Red Sea for weeks, justifying their actions as support for Palestinians amid the ongoing war between the Gaza-based Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel, which began on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthi attacks pose a threat to a crucial transit route responsible for up to 12 percent of global trade. In response, the US established a multinational naval task force this month to safeguard shipping in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, US Navy helicopters sank three Houthi-operated vessels that had attacked a container ship in the Red Sea, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed Britain\u2019s foreign minister said on Sunday that he told his Iranian counterpart that Tehran shares responsibility for preventing attacks by Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthis in the Red Sea. \u201cI spoke to [Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian] today about Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, which threaten innocent lives and the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9819,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions\/9819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}