Donald Trump has issued a chilling war threat to Iran – and vowed to retaliate over Houthi rebel attacks in Yemen.
The US president wrote on his Truth Social platform: “Let nobody be fooled! The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN. Any further attack or retaliation by the “Houthis” will be met with great force, and there is no guarantee that that force will stop there.”
He continued in his ranting post: “Iran has played ‘the innocent victim’ of rogue terrorists from which they’ve lost control, but they haven’t lost control. They’re dictating every move, giving them the weapons, supplying them with money and highly sophisticated Military equipment, and even, so-called, ‘Intelligence.’
“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!!”
It comes after the US said it will keep attacking Yemen’s Houthis until they end attacks on shipping, the country’s defense secretary said on Sunday, as the Iran-aligned group signalled it could escalate in response to deadly US strikes the day before.
The airstrikes, which the Houthi-run health ministry said killed at least 53 people, are the biggest US military operation in the Middle East since Trump took office in January. Targets in the Al Jaouf and Hudaydah areas were hit early on Monday, the Houthis said, with at least five children among those killed.
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