Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the United States will assign Yemen’s Iran-sponsored Houthi rebels as a foreign terrorist organization, a move help bunches have cautioned could hamstring endeavors to manage what many consider to be the world’s most exceedingly awful humanitarian emergency.

The assignment will produce results on Jan. 19, the day preceding President-elect Joe Biden gets down to business, Pompeo said in an assertion late Sunday. He said he additionally expects to assign three of the gathering’s chiefs Abdul Malik al-Houthi, Abd al-Khaliq Badr al-Din al-Houthi, and Abdullah Yahya al Hakim as exceptionally assigned global terrorists.

“These assignments will give extra instruments to face terrorist activity and psychological oppression by Ansarallah,” he stated, alluding to the gathering otherwise called the Houthis.