Trump again warns Iran to stop supplying Yemen Houthi ‘barbarians’: ‘Will be completely annihilated’
President Trump insisted Wednesday that Iran cease all military and other assistance to the Houthis while vowing that the Yemen-based terror group “will be completely annihilated.”
The renewed warning came hours after the Tehran-backed Houthis claimed to have carried out another drone attack on the USS Harry S Truman carrier strike group in the Red Sea.
“Reports are coming in that while Iran has lessened its intensity on Military Equipment and General Support to the Houthis, they are still sending large levels of Supplies,” Trump raged on Truth Social.
“Iran must stop the sending of these Supplies IMMEDIATELY. Let the Houthis fight it out themselves.”
On Monday Trump issued a similar threat to the theocratic regime, warning that he will interpret each attack from the Houthis as 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.”
Over the weekend, while taking part in a tournament at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., the president ordered a barrage of airstrikes on Houthi territory.
The Houthis later claimed the attack killed 53 and injured 98, while reps for the group vowed to continue attacks on Red Sea shipping until Israel pulls out of the Gaza Strip.
Houthi forces, who overthrew Yemen’s Western-backed government in 2015 following the outbreak of civil war the previous September, currently hold most of the territory in the country’s west and along the Red Sea coast.
“Either way they lose, but this way they lose quickly,” Trump added Wednesday. “Tremendous damage has been inflicted upon the Houthi barbarians, and watch how it will get progressively worse — It’s not even a fair fight, and never will be.”
“They will be completely annihilated!”
The Houthis have long been part of Iran’s proxy network, which also included the former Bashar-al Assad regime in Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas.
Assad’s regime imploded late last year and Israel has decimated top leadership in both Hezbollah and Hamas.
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