Jerusalem, February 4, 1:52 a. m.
Both countries said the targets included weapons storage facilities, missile systems and launchers, air defense systems and radars.
The U. S. and Britain are wearing down their measures of opposition to thirteen Houthi sites in Yemen.
Iran says the U.S. has made a ‘strategic mistake’ that will destabilize the region.
After U.S. strikes on Syria and Iraq, the next move belongs to Tehran.
U. S. measures at sites connected to Iranian-backed militias send a message, but cause damage.
The Republican House is planning a vote on aid to Israel as the Senate tries to reach a broader agreement.
Syria and Iraq are angered by the U. S. strikes and warn they could worsen regional unrest.
Hamas reports that there are still primary elections on the conclusion of a ceasefire agreement.
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The U. S. and Britain on Saturday carried out large-scale military moves against several sites in Yemen controlled by Houthi militants, according to reports from the two countries and six allies helping them, as Biden’s leadership continues its crusade of retaliation in the Middle East. Militias helped through Iran.
The strikes on 36 Houthi targets at 13 sites in northern Yemen came just 24 hours after the U. S. carried out a series of military moves against Iranian forces and militias they help at seven sites in Syria and Iraq. and British fighter jets struck deep-buried arsenal facilities, missile systems and launchers, air defense systems and radars, he said. Australia, Bahrain, Denmark, Canada, the Netherlands and New Zealand provided aid, which officials said included intelligence and logistical assistance.
“These precision measures aim to disrupt and degrade the functions the Houthis use to threaten global industry and the lives of innocent seafarers, and are a reaction to a series of illegal, harmful and destabilizing moves through the Houthis from previous coalition movements. “said,” he said, referring to major attacks in the United States and Britain last month.
The Houthis have introduced attacks on ships in the Red Sea, claiming they are doing so to protest the Israeli army’s crusade in Gaza by Hamas.
“Our military operations against the Zionist entity will continue until the aggression against Gaza ceases, no matter what sacrifices it demands of us,” a senior Houthi official said in reaction to the latest attacks. “We will face one escalation after another. “
Although the Biden leadership maintains that it is not about expanding the war in the region, the movements of the last two days are indicative of an escalation.
In terms of scale, the moves in Yemen were roughly the duration of the U. S. and British attacks on Jan. 22, but smaller than the Jan. 11 salvos, he said.
Saturday’s moves came after an increased exchange of attacks over the past 36 hours between the Houthis and U. S. forces in the Red Sea and nearby waters.
At around 10:30 a. m. local time on Friday, the destroyer Carney shot down a drone flying over the Gulf of Aden. Six hours later, the U. S. struck 4 Houthi attack drones that the military’s central command said were about to release and put merchant ships at risk. Three hours later, U. S. forces struck cruise missiles in Yemen’s Houthi-controlled spaces after finding they posed a risk to ships in the area, Central Command said in a separate statement. And about five hours later, the destroyer Laboon and the FA-18 attack plane shot down seven drones flying over the Red Sea.
Then on Saturday night, before the planned strikes, the United States hit six Houthi anti-ship cruise missiles as they were being prepared to launch against ships in the Red Sea, Central Command said.
The Biden leadership has so far attempted to limit the Houthis’ ability to threaten merchant ships and army vessels by killing massive numbers of Houthi fighters and commanders, potentially unleashing even more chaos in an expanding war.
However, the U. S. -led measures have failed to deter the Houthis from attacking sea lanes to and from the Suez Canal, which are critical to global trade.
The U. S. -led air and naval measures began in reaction to dozens of Houthi drone and missile attacks on advertising vessels in the Red Sea since November. The U. S. and several allies had warned the Houthis of dire consequences if the salvos did not stop.
— Report by Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper Washington
Iran on Saturday condemned U. S. airstrikes on sites in Iraq and Syria linked to its military and militias it supports, stopping short of threatening retaliation.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said the attacks followed decades of U. S. efforts “to resolve the unrest by using force and the army,” according to Iranian media. Amir Abdollahian made the comments in a meeting with a visiting U. N. official in Tehran.
Earlier, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani called the measures “another strategic mistake by the U. S. government” and predicted they would destabilize the region.
Iran’s closest regional ally, Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militia, said in a statement that the strikes showed the United States wanted to expand the conflict rather than contain it. He added that the attacks would only make Iraq and Syria more resolved to “liberate their countries from American occupation.”
Iran budgets for and arms a network of militias across the region, collectively as the Axis of Resistance, which opposes U. S. and Israeli influence in the region.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella organization of Shiite militias aligned with Iran, carried out the drone attack on a U. S. base in Jordan that killed three U. S. soldiers, according to U. S. intelligence.
The United States has accused one of the group’s members, Kata’ib Hezbollah, of being the perpetrator of the fatal drone attack in Jordan. After the U. S. announced it would retaliate, Kata’ib Hezbollah announced last week that it would postpone its attacks on U. S. bases and claimed that its decisions were independent of Iran.
On Saturday, other Iraqi armed teams took a more provocative stance. One of them, Harakat al-Nujaba, considered Iran’s closest best friend with complex military capabilities, said in a statement that “the Islamic Resistance will respond appropriately at the time. “and the position we want, and this is not the right solution. ” end. “
— Farnaz Fassihi and Hwaida Saad
The map shows five of the seven sites that the U.S. hit with military strikes in Syria and Iraq. The locations of two other sites have not been confirmed.