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“You just don’t want to fight,” said Mr. Trump. “And we will honor and we will stop the bomb attacks. You have surrendered, but what is more important, we will take your word. You say you will no longer hunt ships.”

Despite his claim to success, however, it was unclear whether the United States had achieved their goal of preventing the Houthis from hindering international shipping after an expensive seven -week bomb campaign.

The Houthis themselves stopped explaining a full ceasefire and said they would continue to fight Israel. And Houthi supporters and supporters quickly portrayed the deal as a great victory for the militia and as a failure for Mr. Trump, who spread a hashtag with social media, the “Yemen defeated America”.

For more than a year, the Houthi’s projectiles have been released on commercial and military ships in the Red Sea in the militia group, which has described as solidarity with the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip and the Hamas, the militant group that controls the Palestinian territory.

In mid -March, the United States started hundreds of goals to try to reopen the international shipping routes. The campaign cost well over $ 1 billion. Congress officers said they invented Pentagon officials in closed briefings last month. The ammunition rate used in the campaign has led to some US military strategists, which fears that it could undermine the willingness for a potential conflict with China.

After Mr. Trump unexpectedly broken the news of the deal between the Houthis and the United States, the Foreign Minister of Oman, Badr Albusaidi, said his country had conveyed the agreement.

“In the future, no page will ensure the others, including American ships, in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab-Straße, freedom of navigation and the smooth flow of international commercial shipping,” he said in a explanation on social media.

Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a high-ranking Houthi politician, said that the Houthis would stop their attacks on a smaller group if the United States would post their attacks on Yemen:

However, Mr. al-Bukhaiti said that the Houthis would continue the military operations until Israel increased its siege for Gaza: “No matter the victims, even if we have to fight until the day of the court.”

His explanation unclear whether the Houthis would stop attacking other ships in the decisive shipping lane. The Houthis said that they only target ships with connections to Israel or the United States, but the militia has targeted ships in the past without obvious connection to both. In an interview with the New York Times on Tuesday, Mr. Al-Bukhaiti did not answer any specific questions whether the group would continue to attack Israeli ships.

Mahdi al-Mashat, another high-ranking Houthi officer, made it clear that the group, which was intended to take revenge against Israel to bomb on the international airport of the main port in Yemen on Tuesday. Mr. Al-Mashat said the reaction of the Houthis was “shallow, painful and about the ability of the Israeli and American enemy.”

Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a high-ranking member of the group, also described Mr. Trump’s announcement as a “victory” for the Houthis, which implied in a social media post that the agreement meant that the United States no longer supported Israel’s struggle against the Houthis.

The US Central Command responsible for the operations against Houthi’s US Central Command referred questions to the Agreement on the White House. The White House refused to explain the comments from Mr. Trump or to answer what the administration would do if the Houthis strike would continue against Israeli ships.

Mr. Trump, who tends to not do foreign policy, seemed to catch his own Ministry of Defense unprepared. On Tuesday afternoon, three Pentagon officials said that the military had not yet received any news from the White House to end his offensive operations against the Houthis. The officials tried to find out how Mr. Trump’s announcement had changed military policy.

The new US armistice comes with the militants supported by Iranians, since American officials are working to curb a deal to contain the nuclear ambitions of Tehran, and the agreement with the Houthis could play a role in these broader discussions.

Two Iranian officials said on Tuesday that Iran used his influence on the Houthis in the context of Oman’s efforts to convey an armistice and to get them to shoot on US ships. The officials, one in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and one with the revolutionary guards talked about the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

The Houthis receive weapons and funds from Iran and are part of a network that is regionally referred to as Iranian resistance axis. A recently social media post in Defense Minister Pete Hegseth threatened measures against Iran because of Houthi attacks on American ships.

In the past few weeks, Iranian officials have publicly distanced themselves from the Houthis and said that Iran has no control over the group and that their actions are a reaction to the war in the Gaza. The highest leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in mid-March that “Houthis act independently on her own interests and personal views” refused and Iran denied a proxy militia in the region.

Ahmad Zeidabadi, a prominent reformist analyst, wrote on social media that the ceasefire news between the United States and Houthis “The Best News for him” and the worst news for hardliners in Iran are supporting the proxy militias in the region.

However, national security experts doubt that an agreement would lead to long -term termination of attacks in the Red Sea. Mr. Trump’s announcement came just a few hours after the Houthis had published an explanation in which there was a “Holy War in favor of the injustice of the wrong Palestinian people in Gaza” and an “Israeli-American British” enemy.

The Houthis described their attacks as an attempt to put Israel under pressure to increase the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza, in which more than two million Palestinians have problems getting food and water – a blockade that has only been deepened recently.

The Palestinians in Gaza have been besieged by Israel since the Hamas carried out a fatal attack in South Israel in October 2023. Israeli and Houthi forces have also carried out strikes against each other.

“I would assume that the Houthis will continue to try to Israel and what the group” Israeli “ships calls in the Red Sea,” said Gregory Johnsen, a former member of the UN Security Council expert in Yemen. “If that happens, what do the US do: restart the strikes or let Israel handle the Houthis?”

He also expressed skepticism that the commercial shipping industry would return to the Red Sea, since the Houthis “did not defeat or degraded that they could not execute these attacks”.

“You only promised not to be, and whether the shipping industry is willing to take the Houthis word remains to be seen,” he said.

Helene Cooper Reporting from the Pentagon contributed, Eric Schmitt From Washington, Farnaz Fassihi From New York and Shuaib Almosawa From Sana, Yemen.