Following two days of Houthi missile strike against militants aligned with Tehran in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, the White House national security adviser declared on Sunday that the US wants to continue hitting groups in the Middle East that receive backing from Iran.
A day after the U.S. military struck militants backed by Tehran in Iraq and Syria in response for a deadly attack on U.S. personnel in Jordan, the United States and Britain launched attacks against 36 Houthi targets in Yemen.
In a statement on X, US Central Command (Centcom) stated that the US launched attacks “in self-defence” against Houthi missile strike in Yemen on Sunday.
According to Centcom, four anti-ship missiles that “were prepared to launch against ships in the Red Sea” and a land-attack cruise missile were struck by US forces.
About Houthi missile strike
One day after US-UK strikes on Houthi targets, there is another round of military action.
All of this comes after the Yemeni group supported by Iran has persisted in attacking military and commercial ships in the Red Sea.International trade has been impacted by the Houthi missile strike, which have led large shipping corporations to avoid the waterway.
According to Egypt, the amount of money it received from the Suez Canal fell by nearly half in January, and fewer ships passed through the vital commercial route in that same month.
The Houthi missile strike on Saturday night illuminated the sky in the southern part of Yemen’s capital, Sana’a.
Yahya Sarea, the group’s military spokesman, responded to the Houthi missile strike on Saturday by writing on X, saying, “These attacks will not deter us from our moral, religious, and humanitarian stance for the Gaza Strip’s tenacious Palestinian population, and it won’t go unacknowledged or unpunished.
The attacks are the most recent in a war that has erupted across the Middle East since October 7, when Israel was overrun by the terrorist Palestinian organization Hamas, which is supported by Iran, and a war was declared.
Iran’s take on Houthi missile strike
Top diplomat Antony Blinken left for the area on Sunday afternoon as part of the Biden administration’s diplomatic attempts to lessen the effects of the war.
Groups backed by Tehran that have declared their support for the Palestinians have entered the conflict all over the region: the Houthis have fired on ships in the Red Sea and Israel itself, Iraqi militias have fired on American forces in Iraq and Syria, and Hezbollah has fired at Israeli targets at the Israeli-Lebanese border.
The U.S. campaign of revenge for the death of three American soldiers in a drone strike by militants backed by Iran on an outpost in Jordan is ongoing concurrently with the strikes in Yemen.
The United States launched the initial round of that response on Friday, hitting around 85 sites in Syria and Iraq that are connected to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and militias it supports, allegedly resulting in the deaths of close to 40 people.
Even after the most recent U.S. strikes, Mahjoob Zweiri, Director of the Gulf Studies Center at Qatar University, did not anticipate a shift in Iran’s strategy.
Hundreds of people witnessed the burial march in Baghdad for the seventeen PMF members who were killed in the US bombings. The PMF is a governmental security force made up of various armed factions supported by Iran.
Senior Iraqi lawmaker Hadi al-Ameri, who maintains strong ties with Iran, declared that it was time to remove the 2,500 American soldiers stationed in the country to assist stop the Islamic State from resurrecting. “Their presence is pure evil for the Iraqi people,” he stated.
Discussions for the withdrawal of the US-led coalition from Iraq were started last month.
