[image: Yemen’s Houthi’s rally in Samaa]
U.S. airstrikes over the weekend took out Houthi drone, missile and air defense systems, but it remains to be seen whether they struck a lethal blow at their main target: the Iranian regime’s resolve <www.foxnews.com/category/world/conflicts/iran>.
Joint Staff Director for Operations Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich told reporters “dozens of military casualties” had so far been counted, and that he had seen “no credible indications of any civilian casualties.”
He added that an initial wave of strikes “hit over 30 targets at multiple locations, degrading a variety of Houthi capabilities.”
“These included terrorist training sites, unmanned aerial vehicle infrastructure, weapons manufacturing capabilities, and weapons storage facilities.”
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed 53 people had been killed, including five children. Attacks began Saturday and continued into Monday.
Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell said the message in the strikes was, “If you shoot at American troops there will be consequences.”
At the same time, he emphasized, “this is also not an endless offensive. This is not about regime change in the Middle East, this is about putting American interests first.”
But President Donald Trump <www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump> had been clear that while the Houthis were the target of the attacks, Iran would be held responsible for any retaliation.
“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,” he wrote on Truth Social.
“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!”
The Houthis announced last week they would ramp up attacks on the Red Sea once more, claiming they were doing so to pressure Israel to allow humanitarian aid to flow back into Gaza. <www.foxnews.com/world/white-house-backs-israels-decision-halt-gaza-aid-shipments-until-hamas-accepts-ceasefire-extension>
The group had halted strikes in January when the Gaza ceasefire was first announced.
Trump last week tried the diplomatic route with Iran, writing a letter to its supreme leader asking for engagement in nuclear talks. But Iran, enraged by Trump’s stated intentions to return to a “maximum pressure” sanctions campaign, said it would not engage with the U.S.
Trump has said its strikes will continue “with overwhelming lethal force” until the Houthis are eliminated as a threat.
But what elimination would look like – especially if the Houthi attacks persisted – was vague.
U.S. airstrikes over the weekend took out Houthi drone, missile and air defense systems, but it remains to be seen whether they struck a lethal blow at their main target: the Iranian regime’s resolve <www.foxnews.com/category/world/conflicts/iran>.
Joint Staff Director for Operations Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich told reporters “dozens of military casualties” had so far been counted, and that he had seen “no credible indications of any civilian casualties.”
He added that an initial wave of strikes “hit over 30 targets at multiple locations, degrading a variety of Houthi capabilities.”
“These included terrorist training sites, unmanned aerial vehicle infrastructure, weapons manufacturing capabilities, and weapons storage facilities.”
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed 53 people had been killed, including five children. Attacks began Saturday and continued into Monday.
Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell said the message in the strikes was, “If you shoot at American troops there will be consequences.”
At the same time, he emphasized, “this is also not an endless offensive. This is not about regime change in the Middle East, this is about putting American interests first.”
But President Donald Trump <www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump> had been clear that while the Houthis were the target of the attacks, Iran would be held responsible for any retaliation.
“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,” he wrote on Truth Social.
“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!”
The Houthis announced last week they would ramp up attacks on the Red Sea once more, claiming they were doing so to pressure Israel to allow humanitarian aid to flow back into Gaza. <www.foxnews.com/world/white-house-backs-israels-decision-halt-gaza-aid-shipments-until-hamas-accepts-ceasefire-extension>
The group had halted strikes in January when the Gaza ceasefire was first announced.
Trump last week tried the diplomatic route with Iran, writing a letter to its supreme leader asking for engagement in nuclear talks. But Iran, enraged by Trump’s stated intentions to return to a “maximum pressure” sanctions campaign, said it would not engage with the U.S.
Trump has said its strikes will continue “with overwhelming lethal force” until the Houthis are eliminated as a threat.
But what elimination would look like – especially if the Houthi attacks persisted – was vague.
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