Reports: Biden Still Won’t Add Houthis to State Dept Foreign Terror Org ListFrances Martel 17 Jan 2024
Multiple American corporate media outlets reported Tuesday that leftist President Joe Biden is considering adding Ansarullah, the Yemeni terrorist organization commonly known as the Houthis, to the list of specially designated global terrorist (SDGT) groups.
The designation would limit some funding to the Houthis but would not restore them to the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO), which would block both direct funding and sanction individuals and entities who provide “material support” to the terrorists. The FTO designation would also block members of Ansarullah from immigrating to America.
The SDGT designation would have some limited impact on the Houthis’ financing and empowers the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to add them to its list of “Specially Designated Nationals.” It stops short of the full sanctions tied to the FTO list that the Houthis were subject to prior to Biden’s inauguration.
Despite this, several American news organizations described Biden as considering “restoring” or “renewing” the Houthis to “the terror list,” without specifying in their headlines which designation the Biden administration is considering. On Tuesday, White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby told reporters there was “nothing to update yet on the FTO designation” and that the administration was “still in the process of renewing it.”
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