By Somayeh Malekian, Kevin Shalvey, and David Brennan – ABC News March 16, 2025
The United States Navy cruise missile launch. Click to enlarge
An Iranian general warned on Sunday of the potential for a “decisive and devastating” response to any executed threat, a day after the U.S. conducted strikes on Houthis in Yemen.
Gen. Hossein Salami also denied that Iran had backed the rebel group, which continues to wage a campaign against international ships in the Red Sea and off the Yemeni coast.
“We are not a nation to live in hiding. We are a valid and legitimate system in the world. We announce it if we attack anywhere,” Salami said in a speech broadcast in Farsi.
The general did not say Iran had been threatened, but that the country would offer a “decisive and devastating response to any threat” against it.
Salami’s words echoed those of President Donald Trump, who announced on Saturday he had ordered the U.S. military to launch a “decisive and powerful” strike against the Houthis in Yemen.
“They have waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence and terrorism against American, and other, ships, aircraft and drones,” Trump said. “We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective.”
A U.S. official confirmed to ABC News that U.S. air and naval assets hit dozens of Houthi targets in Yemen, including missiles, radars, and drone and air defense systems. The official characterized the attacks as an opening salvo against the Houthis, and it sends a strong message to Iran.
On Sunday, the Houthis claimed a retaliatory attack they said targeted the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier with “18 ballistic and cruise missiles and a drone.” However, a U.S. official told ABC News this wasn’t true. The Houthis said in a statement that it “will not hesitate to target all American warships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea in response to the aggression against our country.”
Yemeni health officials said the U.S. campaign had killed some 53 people, along with injuring another 98 people. Many of the wounded were “children and women,” the Ministry of Health in Sana’a said on Sunday morning.
National security adviser Mike Waltz told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday morning that the U.S. strikes “took out” multiple Houthi leaders.
Waltz said the strikes were more significant than those conducted during former President Joe Biden’s time in office, which the national security adviser criticized as “feckless.”
“This was an overwhelming response that actually targeted multiple Houthi leaders and took them out. And the difference here is, one, going after the Houthi leadership, and two, holding Iran responsible,” Waltz added.
Asked if there was any chance of direct U.S. military action against Iran, Waltz replied, “All options are always on the table with the president, but Iran needs to hear him loud and clear.” Iranian support for the Houthis, militias in Iraq, Hamas, Hezbollah in Lebanon and other groups “is completely unacceptable” and “will be stopped,” Waltz said.
Trump has made clear that Iran “cannot have a nuclear weapon,” Waltz continued. “All options are on the table to ensure it does not have one, and that’s all aspects of Iran’s program. That’s the missiles, the weaponization, the enrichment. They can either hand it over and give it up in a way that is verifiable, or they can face a whole series of other consequences.”
“But either way, we cannot have a world with the ayatollahs with their finger on the nuclear button.”
Iran is ruled by Donmeh so don’t expect anything from them but a coordinated operation with Israel. Notice they always announce or telegraph their plans to Israel before they launch some do nothing missiles .
winston
good point
Quote: “Gen. Hossein Salami also denied that Iran had backed the rebel group, which continues to wage a campaign against international ships in the Red Sea and off the Yemeni coast.”
General Salami is the Head of IRGC, he did not say Iran does not back/support the AnsarAllah, he said Iran does not dictate to or control them. In other words Iran has no proxies but allies with their own will, obviously Iran helps them with funds, tech, weapons and intelligence, but Iran does not like the other Arab and Muslim countries imagine that Iran is controlling them, this is in the interest of Iran’s soft-war in the region and within the Muslim world. This also keeps the AnsarAllah’s hand much more open to grind with US and Zion despite what you imagine, it is now clear that arial bombardment won’t achieve US and Zion goals, they need to go in on the ground and they won’t. For now Turkey with their rabid HTS dogs in Syria are playing in favor of Zionist interests but their interests are ever becoming more in friction with those of US and Zion. History will testify that Iran masterfully created a power vacuum in Syria by not getting dragged into a manufactured Shia-Sunni war.
Regardless the situation is developing exponentially faster and the eventual Operation True Promise 3 is closer than ever.
ایها صهیون نحن المقاومون و نحن المنتقمون
@Winston Smith
Iran is ruled by Donmeh so don’t expect anything from them but a coordinated operation with Israel. Notice they always announce or telegraph their plans to Israel before they launch some do nothing missiles .
First try to find genuine resistance in the world (Hezbollah, Hamas, AnsarAllah, etc…), then see what their leaders say about Iran and in particular about Iran’s Supreme Leader and IRGC. If you fail to see any real resistance in the world, then you have a problem, you willingly or unwillingly are worshiping power of the Zionist Jews:
1- You believe that only the Chosen Ones can have plans and plan Bs for the future; not Jesus, Aliens or Russians and not even Allah can have a parallel plan!!
2- You see every opposition as controlled, every action against Zion as a false flag.
3- You focus on the genocide but also you belittle resistance and its effect and magnify the pain. You dismiss stupid mistakes Zionists makes and their own internal conflicts. Seriously if they are this powerful then why is this dragging on for so long!?
4- You acknowledge the evilness of the Chosen Ones but you also testify that only they have real power and plan in the world; this makes you inadvertently A Good Goy!
5- If you disagree that you are a goy and thus worshipping and adoring evil obelisk of Zion, then find genuine resistance in the world, if you fail rinse and repeat!
6- Maybe you do find real resistance in the world but you are a jealous goy after all! This could be another dimension.
Notice how every Goy is bouncing in the same funny loop!?
Two scribbles one scribbler in defence of Israel.
Scribbles of Crowley and Winston, just like this scribbler, Jews/Zionist Jews managed by Satan are making lots of mistakes.
To leave no doubt who I am talking about, I am talking about Nico X
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Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 200 people early on Tuesday, Palestinian health authorities said, in what officials described as the most intense attack since a ceasefire came into effect in January.
The strikes targeted dozens of locations across the enclave, including Gaza City, Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis, and Rafah. The Israeli military said it would continue its bombing operations for as long as necessary and signalled that the offensive could extend beyond airstrikes, raising the prospect of a renewed ground assault.
some one please bomb israel soon
cornelius
reform won’t reform anything…the wogs will remain in england unless ASP obtains power.
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