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Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Iran calls for US to withdraw support for Israeli strikes on Yemen
Iran has urged the US to end its support for Israel's continuing strikes on Yemen, claiming Israel is trying to use its conflict with the Houthi-led government to drive a wedge between Iran and the US in the negotiations over the future of Tehran's civil nuclear programme. The strikes have been criticised by the UN-recognised Yemen government based in Aden , which said it had not been consulted and airstrikes alone were not an integrated plan to remove the Houthis from power. Yemen has been divided between the Houthis and the official government since the Houthis captured the capital, Sana'a, in 2015. Israel claimed 20 of its warplanes on Monday had completely destroyed the Houthi-held port of Hodeidah, as well as a nearby cement factory. The Houthis said four people had been killed. On Tuesday, Israel struck Sana'a international airport, warning civilians to leave the area. Related: Strike Houthis while Iran is weak, UN-backed Yemeni government urges west In launching the attacks, probably more extensive than those mounted by the US, Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been highlighting Iran's role in arming the Houthis. The Shia group mounted an attack on Ben Gurion airport on Saturday that the Houthis said was an act of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Israel was shocked that its air defences were penetrated by a single Houthi missile, but Iran believes Israel is escalating the crisis in an attempt to disrupt the negotiations between the US and Iran over its nuclear programme. The talks are due to resume on Sunday. Israel remains opposed to a US-negotiated settlement with Iran that leaves its civil nuclear programme intact, and wants US cooperation in an attack on Iran's nuclear sites. The Iranian foreign ministry on Monday issued a statement insisting the Houthis operate independently from Iran, and was not a proxy army. The ministry said it 'considers the repetition of baseless claims attributing the courageous actions of the Yemeni people in self-defense and support for the Palestinian people to Iran as an insult to this powerful and oppressed nation, and reminds us that it is the US army that, in support of the Zionist regime's genocide, has entered the war against the Yemeni people and is committing war crimes by attacking infrastructure and civilian targets in various cities of this country.' The foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said: 'Netanyahu is brazenly trying to dictate to President Trump what he can and cannot do in his diplomacy with Iran. The world has also learned how Netanyahu is directly interfering in the US government to lead it to another disaster in our region. 'The Netanyahu minority in America, who are terrified of diplomacy, have now revealed their real agenda. The world should take note of what their real priorities are.' The Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baqaei, denounced the strikes as 'a blatant crime and a gross violation of the principles and rules of international law'. Baqaei urged international and regional powers 'to stop the killing and destruction America and Israel are committing in Islamic countries'. The escalation in Yemen represents a further diplomatic difficulty for Iran since support for the Houthi's acts of solidarity with Gaza has featured prominently in Iran's conservative media, and numerous UN reports have documented Iranian arms shipments to the Houthis. But Iran's support for the Houthis, it is argued, hands US Republican hardliners the chance to lobby that Iran's support for resistance groups in the region must form a central part of the US agenda in the talks. Iran has insisted discussions will focus solely on the monitoring of its civil nuclear programme, and the lifting of sanctions. For the past month, conflicting statements from the Trump administration about its requirements for Iran, such as whether it would abandon its domestic uranium enrichment, have disturbed many Iranians. Araghchi has insisted the right to enrich, rather than import uranium, was normal for many signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and that Iran's entitlement to enrich was a red line.
Al Bawaba
01-05-2025
- Politics
- Al Bawaba
New U.S. airstrikes hit Yemen's Sa'dah
ALBAWABA- U.S. forces have launched five new airstrikes on the outskirts of Sa'dah, the northern Yemeni city considered the stronghold of the Houthi-led Ansar Allah movement, according to Houthi-affiliated media. The fresh wave of attacks comes just days after a U.S. strike reportedly hit a detention center in Sa'dah, killing at least 68 people and wounding around 50, many of them African migrants. عاجل | وسائل إعلام تابعة لأنصار الله: عدوان أمريكي بـ5 غارات على محيط مدينة #صعدة — الجزيرة - عاجل (@AJABreaking) May 1, 2025 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) condemned the attack. Christine Cipolla, ICRC's regional director for the Near and Middle East, stated, 'The deadly strike on the detention center resulted in a large number of casualties, including migrants. It is unacceptable for detainees to be caught in the crossfire. This incident highlights the increasing threat to civilian lives in Yemen.' Simultaneously, the U.S. military confirmed that an F/A-18B fighter jet crashed into the Red Sea after taking off from the USS Harry S. Truman. The crash reportedly occurred during an exchange of fire with Houthi forces. One U.S. Navy personnel was injured. The incident marks a significant operational setback, which U.S. officials have reluctantly acknowledged. Since March 15, the U.S. has sharply escalated its air campaign in Houthi-controlled areas across northern and western Yemen. Human rights groups report that hundreds of civilians have been killed in the strikes, with one of the deadliest targeting Ras Isa port, killing more than 80 people, mostly workers and truck drivers.
New York Times
24-04-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
U.S. Says Blast in Yemen Was Caused by Houthi Missile, Not U.S. Strike
A deadly blast on Sunday near a UNESCO world heritage site in Yemen's capital was caused by a Houthi missile, not a U.S. airstrike, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command said on Thursday. The health ministry of the Houthi-led government said earlier this week that an American airstrike had hit a densely populated neighborhood of Sana, the Yemeni capital, killing 12 people and injuring 30 others. The blast struck an area adjacent to Sana's Old City, a UNESCO world heritage site filled with ancient towers. Dave Eastburn, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, which oversees operations in the Middle East, said in a statement that while the damage and casualties described by local health officials most 'likely did occur,' they were not the result of an American attack. While the United States had conducted military operations over Sana that night, the closest American strike was more than three miles away, he added. The Pentagon's assessment that the damage was caused by a 'Houthi Air Defense missile' was based in part on a review of 'local reporting, including videos documenting Arabic writing on the missile's fragments at the market,' Mr. Eastburn said. The Pentagon did not provide those videos or evidence of its claims in its statements. An initial review by The New York Times of local reporting and open-source material in Yemen found a video showing a missile fragment with Arabic writing posted to social media, however it was from a different location from the market in Sana's Old City. Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthis' Politburo, said in a phone interview that the American denial was an attempt to smear the Houthis. He reiterated that the group believed that the United States targeted the neighborhood on Sunday, 'just as it previously targeted ports, cemeteries and citizens' homes, resulting in the deaths of hundreds.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Jordan News
24-04-2025
- Politics
- Jordan News
3 Injured in New U.S. Airstrikes on Sana'a and Saada - Jordan News
Three people were injured on Thursday following U.S. airstrikes targeting the Yemeni provinces of Sana'a and Saada, marking another escalation in the ongoing conflict. اضافة اعلان According to a statement from the Ministry of Health of the Houthi-led (unrecognized) government, 'A citizen was injured in an airstrike on Al-Jiraf Al-Sharqi neighborhood in the capital Sana'a, and residential homes in the northern Bir Zaid area were damaged.' In Saada Governorate, located in northern Yemen, 'one person was wounded in airstrikes on Al-Salim District, and another was injured in the Sahar District,' the Houthi-run SABA News Agency reported. The ministry condemned what it called the 'continued U.S. aggression targeting residential areas,' describing it as a 'flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.' It also called on the international community to take urgent action to stop what it referred to as 'these crimes.' As of 07:40 GMT, no official U.S. statement had been released regarding the strikes. On Wednesday evening, U.S. warplanes reportedly launched six airstrikes on the Sahlin area in Al-Salim District, Saada. Since March 15, the Anadolu Agency has recorded nearly 1,000 U.S. airstrikes in Yemen, resulting in 217 civilian deaths and 436 injuries, mostly among women and children, according to Houthi sources. These figures do not include Houthi fighters. The air campaign began following orders from U.S. President Donald Trump to launch a 'major offensive' against the Houthi movement, with threats to 'completely eliminate' the group. The Houthis, however, have largely disregarded Trump's threats and resumed attacks on Israeli targets and Red Sea-bound vessels, saying these were in retaliation for Israel's renewed military operations in Gaza since March 18. With full U.S. support, Israel has been accused of committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, resulting in over 168,000 Palestinian casualties, mostly women and children, and more than 11,000 missing, according to local health authorities.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump vows to hold Iran responsible after fighting escalates between U.S., Houthis
March 17 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump vowed Monday to hold Iran responsible after fighting between the United States and Houthi militants escalated following U.S. airstrikes over the weekend. "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," Trump warned Monday in a post on Truth Social. "They're dictating every move, giving them weapons, supplying them with money and highly sophisticated military equipment and even so-called 'intelligence,'" the president added. "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." On Sunday, National security adviser Mike Waltz confirmed that weekend airstrikes took out "multiple Houthi leaders." The Houthis have been targeting military and commercial shipping for the past two years in the Red Sea, a critical route for global commercial trade. Waltz has said he would not rule out military action against Iran over its backing of the Houthis or its nuclear aspirations. On Saturday, Trump warned Houthi terrorists, "Your time is up." "The Houthi attack on American vessels will not be tolerated. We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective," Trump wrote in a statement. "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 and attacking the core principle of Freedom of Navigation upon which international trade and commerce depends." "To all Houthi terrorists," Trump added, "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!" President Trump ordered the U.S. military attack on Saturday. "I have ordered the United States military to launch decisive and powerful military action against the Houthi terrorists in Yemen," Trump said. "They have waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence and terrorism against American and other ships, aircraft and drones," he added. "President Joe Biden's response was pathetically weak, so the unrestrained Houthis just kept going." On Sunday, a spokesperson for the Houthi-led Yemen health ministry said in a statement that 53 people, including five children and two women, had been killed in the Yemen airstrikes. The Houthis later claimed they had targeted the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the northern Red Sea with drones and missiles, according to Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree. It is unclear if any of the Houthi strikes hit the carrier.
