London – President Donald Trump said on Monday that more attacks or reprisals by the hutis would be considered an attack by Iran and that they would face “serious” consequences.
Trump’s threat occurs after the United States launched a new series of air attacks against the Yemeni group starting on Saturday. On Sunday, the Hutis claimed to have frustrated “a hostile attack that the enemy was preparing to launch against our country.” An American official told ABC News that the hutis fired 11 drones and a ballistic missile in the USS Harry S Truman holder in the Red Sea, none of which was close to hitting any American ship.
In a publication about his real social platform, Trump called the hutis “mafia and thug sinister” said that his attacks “emanate and are created by Iran.”
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, observes while launching military strikes against the hutis aligned in Iran de Yemen about the group’s attacks against the sending of the Red Sea, in a location not specified in this image of a brochure published on March 15, 2025.
White House through Reuters
Trump said Iran is “dictating each movement, giving them the weapons, providing them with highly sophisticated money and military equipment, and even the so -called” intelligence. “
“All those fired by the hutis will be considered, from this moment, as a shot of the weapons and leadership of Iran, and Iran will be responsible and will suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be serious!” Trump said.
The hutis claimed to have triggered 18 ballistic missiles and a drone in two separate attacks during the previous 24 hours. All drones were demolished by combatants, 10 demolished by air force airplanes and one by Navy planes, while the ballistic missile was not intercepted, since it remained far from the ships, the US official said.
Trump described US strikes as “decisive and powerful military action” against the group backed by Iran. The hutis have been pointing to the shipment linked to the west and by launching ammunition to Israel since the fall of 2022, in protest of the Israel War against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“They have fought a relentless campaign of piracy, violence and terrorism against Americans and others, ships, airplanes and drones,” Trump published in Truth Social on Saturday. “We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our goal.”
Lieutenant General Alexus Grynkewich, head of Operations of the Joint Personnel, told journalists at the Pentagon Press Conference on Monday that the United States reached 30 objectives in multiple locations on Saturday and that additional attacks were held on Sunday. He said the operation continued on Monday “and will continue in the next few days until we achieve the president’s objectives.”
Grynkewich said the objectives included terrorist training sites, infrastructure of unmanned aerial vehicles, arms manufacturing capabilities and arms storage facilities. They also included command and control centers, where “several experts in non -manned air service vehicles were located on Sunday”, as well as the facilities that have been used to threaten the shipment.
Yemeni Ministry of Health said the attacks killed 53 people and injured 98 more. Grynkewich had “dozens of military deaths” of Saturday strikes and that there are no indications of civilian casualties. He said that the Pentagon was aware of the reports of civil victims, and “we look closely when they enter, but we have no credible indications.”
Talking to journalists on Air Force One on Sunday, Trump said he was not worried about retaliation attacks related to the latest US strikes.
The National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, told “This Week” of ABC on Sunday that the attacks represented “an overwhelming response that actually addressed multiple Huti leaders and took them out. And the difference here is, one, to persecute the Hutí leadership, and two, holding Iran.”
Detailing their last attack against the ships of the US Navy., The Hutis said in a Sunday statement that “they will continue to prohibit the passage of Israeli ships through the operations zone until the blockade is lifted in the gaza strip.”
This image taken from the video provided by the US Navy shows an airplane that is thrown from the USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea before air attacks in Sanaa, Yemen, on March 15, 2025.
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ABC News’ Will Gretsky, Nicholas Kerr, Michelle Stoddart and Luis Martínez contributed to this report.
