The US has launched a “decisive and powerful” wave of airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen; President Donald Trump has said that it is the reason for armed group attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.
Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, “Nashed by Iran, Hurti thugs have fired missiles at American aircraft, and targeted our soldiers and colleagues,” saying that their “piracy, violence and terrorism” cost “dollars” and put life in danger.
According to the Ministry of Health run by the Houthis, there are at least 31 deaths and 101 injuries. In response to the Israel-Hamas struggle in Gaza, the group began to target shipping and said its forces would respond to US attacks. On Saturday evening, Hauthis reported a series of explosions in Sana and Northern Province Sada, a stronghold of rebels on the border of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The Iranian-backed rebel group, which considers Israel its enemy, controls the northwest of Sanaa and Yemen, but is not an internationally recognised government of the country.
The images are not verified, growing above the area around the airport of Sanaa, including a military facility. In a statement, Houthi blamed the US and the UK for the “wicked” aggression that targeted residential areas in the Yemeni capital Sana’a – although it is understood that the UK did not participate in the US attacks against the Houthi goals on Saturday, but it supported the regular fuel for the US.
These attacks, Trump said, “will not be tolerated”.
He said, “We will use heavy deadly force until we achieve our purpose.”
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the US government had no rights, or business “in Iran not determining the foreign policy”. ,
On Sunday, he wrote on X, “End
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