CAIRO — Iran on Sunday as soon as once more denied aiding Yemen’s Houthi rebels after america launched a wave of airstrikes towards them and President Donald Trump warned that Tehran can be held “fully accountable” for his or her actions.
The Houthi-run Well being Ministry stated the strikes killed at the least 31 folks, together with girls and youngsters, and wounded over 100. The rebels stated one strike hit two houses in northern Saada province, killing 4 youngsters and a lady. The rebel-run Al-Masirah TV confirmed pictures of what it stated had been the our bodies.
The Houthis have repeatedly focused worldwide transport within the Crimson Sea and launched missiles and drones at Israel in what the rebels stated had been acts of solidarity with the Palestinians within the Gaza Strip, the place Israel has been at warfare with Hamas, one other Iranian ally.
The assaults stopped when a fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire took maintain in Gaza in January, however the Houthis had threatened to resume them after Israel cut off the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza this month.
The U.S. and others have lengthy accused Iran of providing military aid to the Houthis and the U.S. Navy has seized Iranian-made missile components and different weaponry it stated had been sure for the militant group, which controls Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and the nation’s north.
Gen. Hossein Salami, head of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, denied his nation was concerned within the Houthis’ assaults, saying it “performs no position in setting the nationwide or operational insurance policies” of the militant groups it is allied with throughout the area, in accordance with state-run TV.
Iranian International Minister Abbas Araghchi, in a put up on X, urged the U.S. to halt the strikes and stated Washington can’t dictate Iran’s international coverage.
Trump on Saturday had vowed to make use of “overwhelming deadly pressure” till the Houthis stop their assaults on transport alongside the very important maritime hall.
The airstrikes come a couple of days after the Houthis said they would resume attacks on Israeli vessels crusing off Yemen in response to Israel’s newest blockade on Gaza. There have been no Houthi assaults reported since then.
The Houthis had focused over 100 service provider vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two and killing 4 sailors, throughout their marketing campaign focusing on army and civilian ships between the beginning of the Israel-Hamas warfare in October 2023 and January of this yr, when the ceasefire in Gaza took impact.
The USA, Israel and Britain have beforehand hit Houthi-held areas in Yemen, however Saturday’s operation was carried out solely by the U.S. It was the primary strike on the Houthis beneath the second Trump administration.
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Related Press author Amir Vahdat in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report.
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