MEHR: Yemen’s Ansarullah officials said explosions hit the cities of Sana'a, Hudaydah, Sa’ada, and Dhamar early Friday, with a US official announcing that American and British attacks against Yemen were carried out by airplanes, ships, and submarines.
In Iran’s first reaction to the aggression, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani stressed that the “arbitrary attacks will have no result other than fueling insecurity and instability in the region”.
“These military attacks are carried out in line with the continuation of the full support of the United States and the United Kingdom for the last hundred days of the Zionist regime's war crimes against the Palestinian nation and the oppressed citizens under the complete siege of the Gaza Strip,” he said.
“While the Zionist regime continues its attacks and war crimes in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in Palestine, the United States and England are trying to detract the attention of the people of the world from the crimes of this fake, criminal, and aggressor regime against the people of Palestine by expanding their umbrella of support for the Zionist regime,” he said.
Kan’ani expressed his concern about the consequences of such arbitrary attacks on regional and international peace and security, calling on the international community to prevent the spread of war, instability, and insecurity in the region with responsible reactions and actions.
Tehran reacts to US, British attacks on Yemen
Russia condemns US and UK for 'irresponsible' strikes on Yemen
The United States and Britain launched strikes from the air and sea against Houthi military targets in Yemen in response to the Iran-backed movement's attacks on ships in the Red Sea since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
"A large-scale military escalation in the Red Sea region could strike out the positive trends that have emerged recently in the Yemeni settlement process, as well as provoke a destabilisation of the situation throughout the Middle East."
"This attempt was unsuccessful, because the adopted resolution does not provide any right to carry out strikes, and, accordingly, from the point of view of international law, they are illegitimate."
- Riyadh called for restraint and "avoiding escalation" after the strikes and said it was monitoring the situation with great concern.
- "We share the concerns expressed by our regional partners, in particular from Saudi Arabia," Zakharova said.
- The U.S. said Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands supported the operation, and presented the strikes as part of an international effort to restore the free flow of trade in a key route between Europe and Asia that accounts for about 15% of the world's shipping traffic.
Reporting Guy Faulconbridge in Moscow and Filipp Lebedev in Tbilisi; Editing by Alex Richardson and Timothy Heritage
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