Donald Trump vowed that ‘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’
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 group said, with at least five children among those killed.
The US said it launched a “decisive and powerful” wave of air strikes to stop Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. According to Washington, key Houthi figures are among the dead, although the group is yet to confirmed these claims. Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi said that as long as US attacks continue, the group would keep targeting US ships in the Red Sea.
Taking to X, health ministry spokesperson Anis al-Asbahi said 53 people had been killed including “five children and two women”, as well as 98 people that had been wounded. Yemeni resident and Father-of-two, Ahmed, told the AFP news agency: “I’ve been living in Sanaa for 10 years, hearing shelling throughout the war. By God, I’ve never experienced anything like this before.”
In a message to the Houthis, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that if they did not stop: “HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE”.
