Terror leader claims he’s launched attack on major US aircraft carrier after Trump airstrikes battered Yemen
Yemen’s Houthi terrorists claim to have attacked the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier – as well as several American warships – in the Red Sea.
The terror group claimed, without offering evidence targeted, they attacked the Truman and its warships in the Red Sea with ballistic missiles and drones in response to the U.S. attacks.
A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to Reuters, dismissed the claims, saying they were not aware of any Houthi attack on the Truman.
The alleged attack comes as the first set of Donald Trump’s airstrikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed at least 31 people.
The Houthis, who have attacked Israel and Red Sea shipping throughout the Gaza war, said children were among those killed by the intense barrage of strikes, which were carried out with British military support. They added that 101 people were wounded.
Trump, in a post on social media, vowed to ‘use overwhelming lethal force’ and ordered Iran to ‘immediately’ cut its support.
The Houthis warned that the strikes ‘will not pass without response’, while Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi condemned the deaths and said Washington had ‘no authority’ to dictate its foreign policy.
A spokesperson for Iran’s foreign ministry, Esmaeil Baqaei ‘strongly condemned the brutal air strikes by the US’ in a later statement, denouncing them a ‘gross violation of the principles of the UN Charter’, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vowed to retaliate against Trump’s strikes.
Yemen’s Houthi terrorists claim to have attacked the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier
The terror group claimed, without offering evidence targeted, they attacked the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and its warships in the Red Sea with ballistic missiles and drones
The Houthi Ansarollah website slammed what it called ‘US-British aggression’ and Washington’s ‘criminal brutality’.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM), which posted images of fighters and a bomb demolishing a building compound, said ‘precision strikes’ were launched to ‘defend American interests, deter enemies, and restore freedom of navigation’.
‘Our Yemeni armed forces are fully prepared to confront escalation with escalation,’ the rebels’ political bureau said in a statement on their Al-Masirah TV station.
The rebels, who have controlled much of Yemen for more than a decade, are part of the ‘axis of resistance’ of pro-Iran groups staunchly opposed to Israel and the United States.
They have launched scores of drone and missile attacks at ships passing Yemen in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden during the Gaza war, claiming solidarity with the Palestinians.
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