Trump Threatens Direct Attack on Iran After Weekend Bombings in Yemen: ‘Consequences Will Be Dire!’
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President Donald Trump threatened Monday morning direct military action against Iran after US military forces spent the weekend bombing Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Houthi targets across the country were struck on Saturday and Sunday. The Trump administration said Houthi leadership and fighters were targeted over an Iran-backed campaign of terror they have been waging against US and international shipping in the Red Sea.
NBC News reported the US military killed 53 combatants. A Houthi rebel leader told the network the US strikes would only serve to inspire other attacks on ships passing through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
Trump said in a post on his Truth Social account that any future attacks would be viewed as having come directly from Tehran:
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. 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!
DONALD J. TRUMP,
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
According to the US Treasury Department, Iran launders funds to the Houthi rebels that the group uses to finance strikes against Israel and other US allies.
Attacks on ships in the region have gone on for more than a year and have forced many vessels to seek alternate routes to their destinations.
