United States President Donald Trump launched a large -scale military attacks against Iêmen’s Houthis, which are aligned with Iran on Saturday (15), due to the group’s attacks on the Red Sea, killing at least 31 people at the beginning of a campaign that should last many days.
Trump also alerted Iran, the main supporter of the Houthis, who needed to immediately interrupt the group support. He said that if Iran threatened the United States, “America will be fully responsible and we will not be kind to it!”
The leading commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard reacted on Sunday (16) saying that Houthis are independent and make their own strategic and operational decisions.
“We warn our enemies that Iran will respond decisively and destructive if they put their threats into practice,” Hososin Salami told state media.
The ongoing attacks – which a US authority told Reuters that they can continue for weeks – represent the largest US military operation in the Middle East since Trump took office in January. It happened as the United States increased the pressure of sanctions on Tehran as they tried to take him to the negotiating table about his nuclear program.
“For all Houthis terrorists, their time is over, and their attacks must stop, starting today. If you don’t stop, hell will fall upon you as nothing you’ve seen before! ”Trump has posted on his social truth platform.
At least 31 people died and another 101 were injured in US attacks, mostly women and children, said Anees al-Asbahi, spokesman for the Ministry of Health administered by Houthis, on a balanced balance on Sunday.
The Houthis political office described the attacks as a “war crime.”
“Our Yemeni armed forces are fully prepared to respond to climbing with climbing,” he said in a statement.
Residents of Sanaã said the attacks hit a building in a hornhi stronghold.
“The explosions were violent and shook the neighborhood as an earthquake. They terrorized our women and children, ”one of the residents, who identified himself as Abdullah Yahia, told Reuters.
The attacks also targeted Houthi military facilities in the city of Taiz, southwest of Yemen, two witnesses said in the area on Sunday.
Another attack at an energy station in the city of Dahyan, Saada, led to an energy cut, said TV Al-Masirah early Sunday. Dahyan is where Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the enigmatic Houthis leader, often finds his visitors.
The Houthis, an armed movement that has taken control of most of the Yemen in the last decade, launched dozens of ships on the coast of the country since November 2023, interrupting global trade and placing US military in a costly campaign to intercept missiles and drones that destroyed US air defense stocks.
A Pentagon spokesman said the Houthis have attacked US War ships 174 times and commercial vessels 145 times since 2023. Houthis say attacks are in solidarity with Palestinians by the Israel war in Gaza with Hamas militants.
The previous government of then -President Joe Biden tried to decrease Houthis’s ability to attack vessels on his coast, but limited US actions.
US officials, speaking on anonymity, say Trump has authorized a more aggressive approach.
This content was originally published in Trump attacks against Houthis can last weeks; At least 31 died on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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