President warns Iran: ‘America will hold you fully accountable and we won’t be nice about it!’
By Phil Stewart and Mohammed Ghobari, Reuters
WASHINGTON/ADEN, Yemen >> President Donald Trump launched military strikes against Yemen’s Houthis today over the group’s attacks against Red Sea shipping, warning “hell will rain down upon you” if the Houthis do not abandon their campaign.
Trump also warned Iran, the Houthis’ main backer, that it needed to immediately halt support to the group. He said if Iran threatened the United States “America will hold you fully accountable and, we won’t be nice about it!”
At least nine civilians were killed and nine injured in U.S. strikes on Yemen’s Sanaa, according to the Houthi-run health ministry.