<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio said over the weekend that President Donald Trump&#8217;s strikes on the Houthis are much different than the strikes from former President Joe Biden because Trump&#8217;s strikes are meant to establish deterrence while Biden&#8217;s strikes were only retaliatory.</p>
<p>The remarks came during a segment on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; with Margaret Brennan while discussing the attacks that the Trump administration launched against the Iranian-backed terrorist group over the weekend.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the last year-and-a-half, last 18 months, the Houthis have struck or attacked 174 Naval vessels of the United States, attacking the U.S. Navy directly 174 times,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And 145 times, they have attacked commercial shipping.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So we basically have a band of pirates with guided precision anti-ship weaponry and exacting a toll system in one of the most important shipping lanes in the world. That&#8217;s just not sustainable,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We are not going to have these people controlling which ships can go through and which ones cannot.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rubio stopped Brennan from claiming that the strikes were similar to Biden-era strikes on the terror group.</p>
<p>&#8220;Those strikes were retaliation strikes,&#8221; Rubio said of the Biden administration&#8217;s strikes. &#8220;So they launch one missile, we hit the missile launcher, or we sent something to do it. This is not a message. This is not a one-off.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said that the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts were aimed at denying them &#8220;the ability to continue to constrict and control shipping.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I can tell you that, as of last night, some of the key people involved in those missile launches are no longer with us,&#8221; Rubio added, highlighting how the U.S. eliminated some of the groups&#8217; leaders. &#8220;And I can tell you that some of the facilities that they used are no longer existing. And that will continue.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The U.S. airstrikes against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen &quot;will continue&quot; until &quot;their ability to control global shipping&quot; is taken away, Secretary of State Marco Rubio says.</p>
<p>&quot;We&#39;re doing the entire world a favor by getting rid of these guys and their ability to strike… <a href="https://t.co/YIK1JUcAvO">pic.twitter.com/YIK1JUcAvO</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1901309094633292213?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2025</a></p></blockquote>

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