At first glance, the United States seems as if it is determined to classify the Houthis as a terrorist group, but this belief is quickly dissipated in view of the Washington's position on the war in Yemen, which is in its fourth year.
A few days ago, the Washington Post reported that the administration of President Donald Trump was considering the classification of the Houthis in Yemen as a terrorist organization after the issue had been discussed sporadically since 2015 until it was reconsidering it again with the White House's striving to adopt a strict position against Iran's affiliated groups.
This does not seem to be serious. The classification of the Houthis as a terrorist group means that they will be a target should be fought, and that the project of tearing small entities aimed at disrupting the region will cease. This contrasts with the orientation of some international decision-making administrations that support these militias to this day.
Some officials affiliated to the legitimacy and resistance, who reject the coup, have been included on the terrorism list by the United States, although some of these leaders and names are known their balance and rejection of violence.

Compression paper
Journalist Marib al-Ward asserts that the Houthi militias do not pose a threat to the US interests with the confession of former and current US ambassadors in Yemen. From this perspective, the Houthi group is a Yemeni component they offering it political inducements for engaging in the peaceful process that leads to an agreement ending the war in the country.
It is likely that the direction of the Trump administration to list the Houthis on the list of terrorist groups is nothing more than a message of pressure to force them to return to the negotiations, pointing out that this comes in coincided with the talk about the return of US sanctions against Tehran after the US withdrawal from the nuclear agreement in an attempt to reduce Iranian regional influence, Nuclear ambition and ballistic missiles.
In his article, al-Ward said that the classification, in terms of law, means preventing US citizens or any side of providing assistance to the Houthis, freezing their funds and banning their leaders from traveling abroad, but he also stressed that like these measures are not practical because there is no known funds in foreign banks can be frozen, in addition to the limited travel of these leaders to abroad.
He pointed out that Washington did not take already any punitive measures against the Houthis; on the contrary, it continued its support by talking about granting them a self-rule in the areas they control. At the same time, the Houthis did not conduct any activity that proves the credibility of their animosity to America according to their slogan or media and political discourse, but when they controlled Sanaa in 2014, they protected the US embassy after the departure of its employees.
He spoke of the classification of the Americans the Shiite leadership in Iraq, and their continuation in cooperating with them in the war against what is known as a "ISIS," excluding the occurrence of that with Houthis so as not to affect the efforts of negotiations sponsored by the United Nations.

Manifestations of terrorism
The Houthis have been practicing terrorism against Yemenis since their coup against the State in September 2014, and this widened the social divide in Yemen and widespread violence, especially that the Houthis are a fundamentalist group that pursues violence to reach its goals.
Following the coup of the militias, Houthis entered most of the Yemeni governorates by force, carrying out a campaign of detentions and storming homes of their opponents. Most of these aggressions were against journalists and political activists due to their expected roles in the Yemeni scene.
In addition, many of the group's opponents have been pursued, arrested and tortured, as well as willful killing and shelling of residential areas. This group has also repressed freedoms. Many mosques, archaeological sites and houses have been destroyed.
International navigation has also been exposed to threats described by the Yemeni government and the international community as "terrorist". The Houthi group has targeted ships in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab strait from locations close to those places.
All these practices forced the Yemeni government to demand the UN Security Council to classify Houthi militias as a terrorist group, especially after the bombing of houses and the displacement of many citizens.

Strangulation
Sources told the Washington Post that the current US administration is considering a range of possible moves, including lighter measures to punish the Houthis.
Many of those who follow the Yemeni file believe that if the Houthis were classified as a terrorist group by the United States, then the United States would be serious in stifling Iran and its Houthi allies in Yemen, this comes in light of Trump's efforts in taking a tough position against Iran-linked groups.
In October 2016, the United States did not hesitate to bombard the Houthi radar sites in coastal areas controlled by the Houthis, who were targeting US ships on international navigation.
On the other hand, there are fears that the classification of this group as a terrorist group will complicate the matter in Yemen, as this will make these militias to be exposed to the intervention of many countries to target them as a terrorist entity, as happened with al-Qaeda and ISIS, and then the mixing of many papers. But they eliminate the possibility of doing so, given the common interests of both sides even before they carried out the coup. This group has repeatedly sought to market itself as a group fights terrorism, although there are many international reports proving its complicity with terrorists.
However, many analysts see that the military termination in Yemen and the withdrawal of weapons from the Houthi group will make the circle narrow on those militias, as they will weaken and will not be able to continue to terrorize citizens at home, or the threat of neighboring countries.

Effect of classification
In a press statements, political analyst Faisal Ali says: "If terrorism is to blackmail governments or to impose a certain agenda at its closest academic definition, the Houthi movement is the descendant of the Shiite Jaroudi terror. It is directed by religious texts that allow the Shiites to kill the Jaafari Ismaili Daoudi Shiites and charge them with infidelity, and allow them to consider Muslims as disbelievers, and looting their money."
It is believed that the classification of the Houthi movement as a terrorist group will add nothing to its literatures, because their origin and roots are terrorism. And the Shiite movement in general is revenge against history and Islam that destroyed the Persian Empire, which started with the name of grievance of Shiite everywhere.
"Their doctrine is to get out against the state and destroy it," he said, pointing to Iran's control of Iraq and its establishment of a Shiite-dominated government and authority.
"When Iran hired the Houthis for its dirty missions in Yemen and the Gulf, it did not think of establishing a state, and the Houthis as well as Iran have no project other than chaos, terrorism and ending the existence of the state," he added.
At the external level, there are those who use the Houthis to implement a special agenda, according to Ali, so there will be no pressure on their movement as being classified as terrorist group, pointing to the two movements of Hezbollah and the Dawa Party, which exercise terrorism and continue to work in several branches in the region.
The political analyst says "But the conviction of the people in addition to the Yemeni, Gulf and Arab society with the seriousness of this movement is what will affect it."

Popular demand
With growing Houthi abuses against the citizens, the well-known Yemeni politician Abdul Aziz al-Muflehi said that the classification of the Houthi militias and their leaders as a terrorist group is a "popular demand" before it is a government demand.
In a press statement, al-Maflahi said that the use of weapons by the coup against Yemenis represents "a real disaster and terrorist act," pointing out that "they are repeating the culture of death, as is the case with terrorist organizations, and therefore their activities should be banned as threats to international peace and security."
The available evidences also show that the militia's approach is compatible with the terrorist acts of organizations such as al-Qaeda and ISIS, as well as targeting trade ships and battleships, confirming that they have plans to transfer their operations to several countries outside Yemen, according to al-Maflhi.
It is worthy to mention that the United Nations special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, is seeking a new round of consultations in Sweden before the end of this year, but his efforts are clashed with the Houthis' intransigence and some international parties that indulge the Houthis in accordance with the policy of sectarian feeding in the region