Illustrative image. (The U.S. Central Command)
United States President Donald Trump warned on March 18 that Iran will be held responsible and face “dire” consequences for any further attacks by Yemen’s Houthis (Ansar Allah).
“Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!” Trump said in a post to Truth Social.
“Any further attack or retaliation by the ‘Houthis’ will be met with great force,” Trump also said in his post, adding that “Iran has played ‘the innocent victim’” in the conflict.
Dozens of strikes hit Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen on March 15 and 16 on orders from Trump, who said that the large-scale attack was a response to the group’s attacks on shipping.
The strikes killed 53 people and left some 98 others wounded. The U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for the operations of American forces in the Middle East, described the large-scale attack as the start of a large-scale operation targeting the Houthis across Yemen.
Additional U.S. strikes hit Houthi-controlled areas on March 17 and 18, with blasts reported in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, the northern Jawf governorate and the capital Sanaa.
Ahead of Trump’s warning, the Houthis announced that they had once again targeted an American aircraft carrier group, calling it retaliation for U.S. strikes.
A spokesperson for the Houthis, Brigadier General Yahya Sarea, said in a statement that “for the second time in 24 hours,” Houthi fighters launched missiles and drones at the USS Harry S. Truman and several of its warships in the northern Red Sea.
The group also vowed in the statement to keep targeting vessels affiliated with Israel until the Israeli “siege” on the Gaza Strip is lifted.
From its side, Iran sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council, complaining that Trump and other U.S. officials have made “reckless and provocative statements” that leveled “baseless accusations” and threatened the use of force against Tehran.
“Iran strongly and categorically rejects any accusation on the violation of relevant Security Council resolutions on arms embargoes in Yemen or involvement in any destabilizing activities in the region,” Iran’s UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani writes in the letter, seen by Reuters.
Amid the escalation on March 17, Iran’s Nournews reported that F-14 fighter jets from the country’s air force intercepted a U.S. spy drone near Iranian airspace. Aviation observers confirmed that a drone approached Iran, identifying it as a MQ-4C Triton.
Iran’s armed forces remain on high alert, prepared for “full-scale defense and a severe counterattack” against enemy interests in the Middle East, Nournews said in a report.
The U.S. appears to be determined to deter the Houthis even if this led to an escalation with Iran. It’s worthing noting that the Trump administration have already ramped up sanctions pressure on Iran while trying to bring it to the negotiating table over its nuclear program.
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hootiys are so ufcked… right up their @sses.
who else wants to see more videos??
of you getting in the @ss? no one wants to see the that boy, but i am sure the is plenty of videos of your mom doing it with 1000 bastards within 12 hours. bet one of those bastards is your father 😉 now put down your phone and pay attention to the teacher in school. we can you repeat 4 grade third time again 😊 always it no ones fault but yours that you have a loser life. have a nice day boy 😉
i am waiting for the us thugs to try landing in yemen and fighting like real men.
it has been reported that there was a landing and joint raid on yemen a few months ago by 70 amerikunts and shlomos. they were ambushed by the houthis and wiped out.
shlomo is depending on his dumb golem, shabbos goy chumpo, to pull his chestnuts out of the fire yet again. but nobody is impressed by chumpo’s juvenile threats any more, not russia, not china, not iran, and certainly not the houthis. they will soon sink one of his little battleships, and he will use that as a pretext to attack iran. and that will be the final nail in the coffin of the dying us empire, and with it its zio regimeparasite.
the coming war, the last in a series of us wars of aggression, will finish off the us empire once and for all, just like ww1 and ww2 finished off the british empire. and all the jackals and poodles and leeches of the us empire will go down with it. chumpo thinks he can bomb countries and murder children at zero cost to himself, but he is deluded, as in most things.
when will the make ww3 official in western media ? hope is that tel-aviv is within oreshnik missile range .
poor hootiys..
they are so tiny
eenie meenie miney moe hang a hootiy by the toe
lol
here’s a little known fact about the hootyis:
they are the hootenest and tootenest sob’s in the wild east.
they often discharge themselves during ramadamn
arrogante, preconceituoso e defensor de quem mata, sobretudo, mulheres e crianças.
ele é um rato. o pior, não merece uma resposta…
they tell us that trump the duck is a president of peace? here’s his peace to that female dog bibi, the submissive of israel and adilson and shnerson
but “at least trump never started a war” according to all the retards. any amerikunt coming within range has a big houthi bullseye painted on his back.
also! qanon in action, warp speed, vaccination, confinement, assassination of souleimani, bombing of syria, all this is donald duck, his imaginary war against the deep state, epstein is his friend, we must not forget him
the orange bloviator has decided to go with the israeli’s and accompanying them to hell. the great peacemaker is about to make pieces of the us military, his true face of israel first showing. he will be the end of israel and the u.s. he thinks his bombs are so much more powerful than those of biden. this is the depth of his stupidity. even his supporters are this stupid. trump’s first casualty will be the u.s. navy…then those on bases everywhere.
trump another dumbo and evil president . he will make fool himself at the world stage . yemeni will makw us to lick the dust . iran is far for us to do anything . if us laucn single strike iniran so all the us base are doomed
many people love thier country . fewer and fewer will love thier governments .
why is the usa helping with the zionist genocide in gaza. when will americans halt the endless flow of money into the black hole called israel. the self chosen christ killers participated in 9/11 in their support for globalism and caused the death of more than 3000 americans after the jews were warned not to go to work at the wtc that day.
iran is going to get the same help from russia that syria did.
the two zionist lap dogs, trump and putin, are working out the details.
the antichrist rules.
russia and usa are gog and magog
the americ*nts need another pearl harbour and/or another 9/11. it should remind them c*nts that they are part of mankind and that it basically it’s not allowed to subjugate another part of mankind for sheer profit – greed is the mother of all misery! the jews however can be missed and never heard from again. no one needs the jews!
the yemen sand-apes better remember how iran threw ass-ad to the wolves…heheheh…
keep whistling in the dark, shlomo. you’re living on borrowed time.
there is no need for “negociation”, the yankees had to fulfil there part of the contract signed in 2015. europe to has to fulfil there part of the contract. iran did and now has the right to ask the counterpart of fulfil first, and after one year diside of it is 100% ok , then come back in the game.
israel breaks ceasefire , gaza and yemen get bombed . iran gets blamed . the operational pause is over . eu puppets will align with israel . the banker pirate class wants total currency and energy control . nothing less will do . the innocent masses pay thier bills as always .