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The American aggression is a failure and will continue to fail. It will not achieve their goals of making us back down from our position or undermining our country's military capabilities, because we are living a jihadist experience and have been resisting American aggression for many years. We will respond to escalation with escalation, targeting their aircraft carriers and warships, and imposing a blockade on their ships."
Ansar Allah leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi
The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the brutal U.S. and UK airstrikes on various regions of Yemen, which resulted in the martyrdom and injury of dozens, including innocent women and children."
Iran's Foreign MinistryThey did shoot at an F-16 a few weeks back after the FTO [designation] and downed an MQ-9 saying it was in Hodeidah airspace; but in terms of shipping, they’ve abided by what they said they were going to do,
Brumfield said
Our position is clear and our demand is simple: lifting the siege on Gaza and saving the people of Gaza from starvation.”
Nassrudin Amer, a Houthi spokesman, wrote on X[Trump’s] strikes were very clearly going after Houthi leadership, and didn’t seem to care if any civilians got in the way,
Nick Brumfield, an independent Yemen analyst, told Al JazeeraTargeting civilians demonstrates America’s inability to confront the situation,
the statement added
Iran will not wage war, but if anyone threatens, it will give appropriate, decisive and conclusive responses."
The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Salami, said
I've been living in Sanaa for 10 years, hearing shelling throughout the war. By God, I've never experienced anything like this before".
One father of two, who gave his name as Ahmed, told AFPIn response to the aggression, we carried out a military operation, targeting USS Harry S. Truman and its escorts with a drone and 18 ballistic and cruise missiles,
Sarea stated
Nine civilians were killed and nine others were injured, most of them seriously,
the Houthis' health and environment ministry said in a statement on their Saba news agency, reporting the strikes on Sanaa
The difference here is, one, going after the Houthi leadership, and two, holding Iran responsible."
Comparing the airstrikes with those launched by the Biden administration, Waltz said
The American enemy launched a blatant aggression against our country with more than 47 air raids targeting Sanaa and seven other governorates,
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said in a televised statement aired by Houthi-run al-Masirah TVIt 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 continued
The Houthis have choked off shipping in one of the most important waterways of the world, grinding vast swaths of global commerce to a halt
President Trump wrote
The massacres committed by the US aggression targeting civilian and residential areas in Sanaa, Saada, Al-Bayda, and Rada’a on Saturday resulted in 132 civilian casualties, including 31 martyrs and 101 wounded, most of whom are children and women.”
Anis Al-Asbahi, the ministry’s spokesperson, stated
The Yemeni Armed Forces will not hesitate to target all American warships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea in retaliation for the aggression against our country,
Saree declared
We’re not going to have these people controlling which ships can go through and which ones cannot. And so your question is, how long will this go on? It will go on until they no longer have the capability to do that,
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told CBS on Sunday
If they continue their aggression, we will continue the escalation,
he said in a televised speech
I want to be very clear, this campaign is about freedom of navigation and restoring deterrence,
Hegseth said in an interview for the Fox Business broadcasterWe're doing the entire world a favor by getting rid of these guys and their ability to strike global shipping. That's the mission here, and it will continue until that's carried out,
Rubio said during an appearance on CBS’ "Face the Nation" on Sunday