The war of words continues.
Houthi attacks. The United States launched a
third day of
large-scale attacks on Houthi rebels in Yemen on Monday. The strikes have killed at least 53 people, including children, according to the Houthi-run health ministry.
They would say that, regardless of whether or not there is any truth to that claim.
Trump has vowed to continue retaliatory strikes until the Iranian-backed proxy group stops targeting shipping vessels in the Red Sea, which the Houthis say they are doing in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
“Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being 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!” Trump
wrote on Truth Social on Monday.
That's a lot of talk. Do you think they take you seriously?
“We warn our enemies that Iran will respond decisively and destructively if they take their threats into action,”
Hossein Salami, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said on Sunday.
Salami is pulling a Trump: he's talking real big because he thinks he needs to. I doubt he grasps the irony of his position. I also find it amusing that an Iranian leader of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is named for a pork filled sausage.
As to Iran's move toward more nukes: nobody with a brain ever doubted that they'd keep working on that program, making progress. Anyone who thought the 2015 deal would stop that, be they on my side of the pond or on the eastern side of the pond, was and remains a naive fool.
The noise will continue, giving the chattering classes something to talk about.