Alwaght- The US and Britain in a "coordinated" move have imposed new sanctions on Iranian figures and a shipping company for enabling Yemeni Ansarullah Movement’s operations against Israeli regime and its Western allies in the Red Sea.
"Mohammad Reza Falahzadeh, deputy commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF), and Ibrahim al-Nashiri, a member of Yemen's Ansarullah Movement, were designated under the sanctions, Reuters cited Treasury Department as saying.
The sanctions come amid escalating situation in the Red Sea.
The US claimed that the Iranian military has been providing arms and intelligence to Ansarullah for its imposition of a tight blockade on Israeli ships and ports for Tel Aviv’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza.
A statement released by the British government said that the sanctions target "those who support or enable the work of the Houthis across the Middle East and around the Red Sea."
Ansarullah Movement has been imposing a maritime siege on Israel since the latter waged its Western-enabled war on Gaza on October 7.
Its attacks crippled the operations of the Israeli ports on the Red Sea coast and raised the prices in the occupied territories.
The resistance movement said that its attacks will continue until the Israeli regime stops its Gaza war that has so far killed nearly 30,000 civilians and massively destructed the infrastructure of the besieged enclave.
The US and Britain formed a coalition earlier in January and launched their first strikes on Yemeni cities in defense of Israeli interests.
There was a high hope that the attacks will degrade Ansarullah’s capability to carry out attacks, but this did not happen as the movement continued its operations nearly on a daily basis in the Red Sea.
Ansarullah broadened its target list by announcing American and British ships, both military and civil, as "legitimate targets."
Desperate West powers in all of their comments on Red Sea operations blamed Iran as the supporter of the Ansarullah’s military activities. But Tehran rejected the accusations, saying Tehran neither sends them weapons, nor influences their decisions to support Gaza that has been subject to a licentious Israeli aggression.
Ansarullah honed its military skills and filled its arsenal using domestic potentials. It owes much of its missile and drone power to the 9 years of resisting an all-out Western-sponsored Saudi-Emirati war. The movement imposed its terms on Saudi Arabia for a ceasefire after the Arab coalition declined to make mentionable gains in its fight against Sana'a.
The US, understanding that it could not destroy Ansarullah's capabilities, turned to China to press Iran for influencing Sana'a decisions. The West claims that Ansarullah is a proxy of Iran, but the movement says its defense of Gaza is a purely Yemeni decision.
Just last week, the British Foreign Secretary David Cameron in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of Munich Security Conference urged China to use its influence in the region to end Red Sea crisis.
The two Western countries are asking for Ansarullah to stop its actions while they allow Tel Aviv to be on a killing spree in Gaza.
Gaza has been in an unprecedented crisis as Israel continues to ban food and medicine from entering the enclave. The UN Security Council moved three times to approve Gaza ceasefire resolutions, but each time they were vetoed by Washington, the last of them drafted by Algeria.
The US provides Israel with weapons on a daily basis. Recently, the Senate approved $95 billion in aids to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan.
The pro-Israeli hawkish approach exists also in the Congress. On Wednesday, Republican Andy Ogles, of Tennessee, responded "we should kill 'em all" to a question by an activist about deaths of Palestinian children in Gaza.
The American sanctions on countries supporting ceasefire and aid delivery to Gaza, thus, is a ridiculing of the international laws, many agree.
