US Plivent Donald Trump has cautioned Iran that it will face “dire” consequences if Yemen’s Houthis persist to strike international shipping lanes.
He shelp the Iranian directership would from now on be watched as having pulled the trigger for “every sboiling fired by the Houthis”, which have lengthy been backed by Tehran.
Trump’s menace came after the Houthis aimed a US airoriginate carrier in the Red Sea chaseing US strikes on Yemen that its health ministry shelp had finished at least 53 people.
The Pentagon shelp it had started recent strikes on 30 aims in Yemen during the strikes that began on Saturday, the hugegest US military operation in the Middle East since Trump returned to the White Hoengage.
Trump posted on his Truth Social platestablish on Monday: “Every sboiling fired by the Houthis will be seeed upon from this point forward, as being a sboiling fired from the arms and directership of IRAN.
“And IRAN will be held dependable, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!”
The US plivent accengaged Tehran of supplying the group with funding, arms and inalertigence, which Tehran denies.
In a letter on Monday to the UN Security Council, Iran’s UN envoy denied it was in violation of a UN arms embargo on Yemen, and shelp it was not participated in any destabilising activities in the region.
Ambasmiserableor Amir Saeid Iravani accengaged the US of “baseless accusations” aobtainst Iran, Reuters novels agency alerted.
On Monday, Pentagon officials shelp the escalating US strikes on Yemen were honested at a wideer range of aims than the strikes authoelevated under establisher Plivent Joe Biden.
Lt Gen Alex Grynkewich shelp that Houthi drone originaters were among those aimed.
He includeed that there had been “no credible indications of any civilian casualties”.
Washington has shelp some key Houthi figures were among the dead, but the group has not validateed this.
“This is not an endless impolite,” shelp Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, includeing that the US was not seeking regime alter, and would persist to engage overwhelming force until its goals are met.
“This campaign will be relentless to degrade their capability and to discleave out up shipping lanes in the region and to protect our homeland,” he includeed.
On Sunday morning, the Houthis started drones and leave outiles aiming the USS Harry S Truman airoriginate carrier in the Red Sea.
US fighter airoriginate sboiling down about 11 of the drones, a US official tbetter the BBC’s US partner CBS.
The Houthis also started a balcatalogic leave outile that crashed into the water well unreasonableinutive of the USS Harry S Truman, the official includeed.
The Houthis shelp at least five children were among 53 people finished in the US air strikes on Yemen’s Al Jaouf and Hudaydah areas, casualties that the BBC has not self-reliantly verified.
The US also started airstrikes aobtainst the group on Saturday and Sunday.
The Houthis shelp they would persist to aim Red Sea shipping until Israel lifted its blockade of Gaza.
The Houthis have have claimed – frequently counterfeitly – that they only aim ships joined to Israel, the US or the UK.
Since November 2023, the Houthis have aimed dozens of merchant vessels with leave outiles, drones and minuscule boat strikes in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
They have sunk two vessels, seized a third, and finished four crew members.
The defy group deal withs Sanaa and the north-west of Yemen, but it is not the country’s internationassociate recognised regulatement.
