Saturday’s strikes against Iran-aligned Houthi fighters from Yemen over the group’s attacks against shipping targets in the Red Sea came after a “very wrong policy by the Biden administration,” Newsmax foreign policy analyst Walid Phares said on Newsmax Saturday. 

“When they took over in 2021, they delisted the Houthis” as a global terrorist organization, said Phares, who appeared on Newsmax’s “The Count” with foreign policy expert Harley Lippman and retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Darin Gaub. 

Once the terrorist designation was removed, Phares said, the Houthis could receive weapons, including ballistic missiles and strategic weaponry. 

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