Lets hope indian navy get some field day with yemen rebels it will be a good PR for indian ships.
There is now good indication that it was Iran behind the whole thing.
They have close to zero leverage over India so they have been stirring up trouble to get our attention.
1. Kulbushan Jadav was captured from Iran and sold to pakistan.
2. Iran is disturbed that India now has a Strategic partnership with SA and UAE.
3. Indications are it was Iran (working with partner) who was behind Jailing of 7 ex-IN officers in Qatar.
4. India no longer uses Iran to deal with pakistan. We now work with SA & UAE.
5. IME Corridor is another game changer which diminishes Iran's strategic port sharing with India.
6. Qatar gave death sentence to ex-IN immediately after India extended support to Israel.
7. Cyber trolling of Indians on world wide forums and targeted attempts at demeaning Indians and insulting Indians was traced to Iran. This appears to be in response to the unexpected Indian public support for Israel's action.
8. The attacked tanker off Indian coast seems to have come from Iran. There is evidence of Shahed 136 drone.
9. Bomb blast near Israel Embassy in Delhi following up the attack on the Ship.
Iran readily uses the "Jewish and Israel" to cover up its aggression. They know that blaming Israel will help them get support of the rest of the islamic nations.
There also appears to be tacit chinese support to Iran for such clandestine activities. SOS made by attacked ships to chinese navy has gone unresponded in directly violation of general Laws of the Sea.
THESE are the reasons India has decided to do a show of strength in the Arabian Sea. India has deployed 5 Destroyers and P8I for long range patrolling.
So the Houthies are only a distraction.