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Houthi attacks on American ships & aircraft (and our troops!) will not be tolerated; and Iran, their benefactor, is on notice.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth echoed the president’s statement, writing on social media Saturday They missed by a hundred miles.”
Alexus G. Grynkewich of the U.S. Air Force, who is also director for operations of the Joint Staff, dismissed the Houthis’ claims, saying We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective.”
Sean Parnell, a spokesman for the Defense Department, said in the news briefing on Monday Tremendous damage has been inflicted,
Mr. Trump said of the effects of the strikes, which began on Saturday Tremendous damage has been inflicted upon the Houthi barbarians, and watch how it will get progressively worse - It's not even a fair fight, and never will be. They will be completely annihilated!"
The Yemeni Armed Forces affirm that the US aggression will not deter the steadfast and struggling Yemen from fulfilling its religious, moral, and humanitarian duties toward the Palestinian people,
the group said in a statement on Tuesday Iran must stop the sending of these Supplies IMMEDIATELY,
A strike by the U.S. aggression"
said the Iran-backed Huthis' Saba news agency and Al-Masira TV, We warn our enemies that Iran will respond decisively and destructively if they carry out their threats" following U.S. military action over the weekend against the Tehran-backed terrorist group
Hossein Salami, the leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said Tehran’s bluster is aimed at bolstering its battered deterrence and getting President Trump to disconnect the dots between Iran and its proxies at a time when the regime is at its weakest,
Behnam Ben Taleblu, director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Iran program, told Fox News Digital on Tuesday 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,
Trump wrote on Truth Social Tellingly, as a measure of the regime’s weakness, Tehran is also trying to downplay its ties with the Houthis despite having built them up with state-level military capabilities for over a decade,
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,
Trump posted on social media Yemen will never back down — we defy the Americans, we defy the Zionists, ... We are the men of the Prophet."
said a man shouting slogans to the Sanaa crowd, who chanted back This is also not an endless offensive,
Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell said on Monday It has been over a year since a U.S.-flagged commercial ship safely sailed through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, or the Gulf of Aden,
Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Saturday To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY. IF THEY DON’T, HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE
Funded by Iran, the Houthi thugs have fired missiles at U.S. aircraft, and targeted our Troops and Allies,