U.S. bombs Yemen: Airstrikes launched on Iranian-backed Houthi targets

The U.S. bombed much than a twelve Houthi targets successful Yemen successful a bid of airstrikes connected Iranian-backed rebels connected Friday.

Military craft and warships struck the militant strongholds and their weapons systems successful 5 locations days aft American warships were attacked successful the Red Sea.

The associated cognition with the British subject is simply a motion of superior escalation with the Middle East inactive waiting to spot if Israel volition retaliate against Iran for the rocket barrage earlier this week.

Operations had been constricted to shipping channels and targeting subject bases. 

Houthi media said 7 strikes deed the airdrome successful Hodeida, a large larboard city, and the Katheib area, which has a Houthi-controlled subject base. 

Four much strikes deed the Seiyana country successful Sanaa, the capital, and 2 strikes deed the Dhamar province. 

The Houthi media bureau besides reported 3 aerial raids successful Bayda province, southeast of Sanaa.

The rebels fired much than a fractional twelve ballistic missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles and 2 drones astatine 3 U.S. ships that were traveling done the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, but each were intercepted by the Navy destroyers, according to respective U.S. officials. 

Earlier connected Friday, Iran's ultimate person held a firearm by his broadside arsenic helium addressed worshippers successful Tehran successful a uncommon nationalist sermon, days aft the rocket onslaught connected Israel

It was the archetypal sermon from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 80, successful astir 5 years to faithful astatine the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla mosque successful cardinal Tehran today.

It came 3 days earlier the one-year day of the Israel-Hamas warfare successful Gaza, triggered by the Iran-backed Palestinian group's October 7 attack.

Khamenei said the attack, triggering the warfare betwixt Israel and Hamas, was some 'logical and legal' for Palestinians successful the 'right'.

From the crowds, immoderate ardent supporters outraged by a twelvemonth of hostilities held portraits of slain allied leaders from Hamas and Hezbollah.

Khamenei, addressing his assemblage mostly successful Arabic, utilized the accidental to dub Hezbollah's conflict a 'vital work to the region', informing Israel 'will not past long'.

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