The Hutis rebels of the United States and Iran in Yemen are promising an escalation after the United States launched air attacks to deter the rebels of attacking military and commercial vessels in one of the most busy shipping runners in the world.
The Ministry of Health led by Houthi said that US attacks. During the night they killed at least 53 people, including five women and two children, and wounded almost 100 in the capital of Sanaa and the northern province of Saada, the strength of the rebels on the border with Saudi Arabia.
“We are not going to have these people controlling which ships can happen and which are not. And then your question is, how long will this be? It will continue until they no longer have the ability to do so, ”said Secretary of State Marco Rubio to CBS on Sunday. He said that these are not the unique retaliation attacks that the Biden administration carried out after the hutis attacks.
President Donald Trump promised to use the “overwhelming lethal force” on Saturday until the Hutis stop attacks, and warned that Tehran would be considered “totally responsible” for his actions.
The hutis have repeatedly attacked international shipping in the Red Sea, sinking two vessels, in what they call acts of solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, where Israel has been at war with Hamas, another Iranian ally.
The attacks stopped when a high the fire of Israel-Ahamas seized January, one day before Trump assumed the position, but last week the hutis said they would renew the attacks against the Israeli ships after Israel cut the humanitarian aid flow to Gaza this month.
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No hutis attacks have been reported since then.
Night air attacks were one of the most extensive attacks against Hutis since the war in Gaza began in October 2023.
Trump's national security advisor Michael Waltz told ABC on Sunday that the attacks “they actually attacked multiple Huti leaders and took them out.” He did not identify them or give evidence. Rubio said that some huti facilities had been destroyed.
The Houti Political Office has said that the rebels will respond to the strikes of the United States and “will comply with the escalation with the climb.”
The rebels said Sunday having attacked the USS Harry S. Truman operators strike with missiles and a drone, but two US officials told Associated Press that they were not tracking anything. The officials spoke about anonymity to discuss military operations.
The spokesman of the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, in a statement requested “sum and a cessation of all military activities”, while warning about the “serious risks” to the terrible situation in Yemen, the poorest nation in the Arab world.
Rubio said that in the last 18 months the hutis had attacked the US Navy. “Directly” 174 times and the commercial shipment directed 145 times using “guided precision anti -mouth armament.”
The attacks caused the most serious fight that the United States Navy had seen since World War II.
On Sunday, the head of the Paramilitary Revolutionary Guard of Iran, General Hossein Salami, denied that his country was involved in the attacks of the Hutis, saying that “he does not play any role in establishing national or operational policies” of the militant groups with which he is allied throughout the region, according to state TV.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, writing in X, urged the United States to stop their air attacks and said Washington cannot dictate Iran's foreign policy.
The United States and others have long accused Iran of providing military aid to the rebels. The US Navy has seized parts of missiles made by Iranians and other weapons that said it was destined for the Hutis.
The United States, Israel and Great Britain previously arrived at the controlled areas of Houthi in Yemen, but the new operation was carried out only by the United States, it was the first strike in Los Hutíes under the second Trump administration.
Carrier's attack group of USS Harry S. Truman, which includes the carrier, three destroyers of the Navy and a Cruise, is in the Red Sea and was part of the mission. USS Georgia's cruise missile submarine has also been operating in the region.
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