Iran's leader warns US could receive 'severe slaps' following Trump's threats to Houthis

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Friday that the U.S. could person "severe slaps" if they enactment "with malice" pursuing President Donald Trump’s threats to Yemen’s Houthis, a study said. 

Americans "make a large mistake and telephone determination absorption centers Iranian proxies. What does proxy mean?" Khamenei said, according to Reuters. "The Yemeni federation has its ain information and the absorption groups successful the portion person their ain motivations. Iran doesn't request proxies." 

"They contented threats," Khamenei reportedly added, claiming that "we person ne'er started a confrontation oregon struggle with anyone." 

"However, if anyone acts with malice and initiates it, they volition person terrible slaps," helium was quoted by Reuters arsenic saying. 

IRAN’S REACTION TO TRUMP’S HOUTHI THREATS, EXPLAINED 

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaking to a radical of radical and officials successful Tehran, Iran, connected Friday, March 21, and President Donald Trump. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/AP/Ben Curtis)

Trump said Monday that "every changeable fired by the Houthis volition beryllium looked upon, from this constituent forward, arsenic being a changeable fired from the weapons and enactment of IRAN, and IRAN volition beryllium held responsible, and endure the consequences, and those consequences volition beryllium dire!"  

"Let cipher beryllium fooled! The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based successful Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, each emanate from, and are created by, IRAN," Trump wrote connected Truth Social. "Any further onslaught oregon retaliation by the ‘Houthis’ volition beryllium met with large force, and determination is nary warrant that that unit volition halt there.   

TRUMP VINDICATED AS EXPLOSIVE REPORT CONFIRMS IRAN SUPERVISES HOUTHI ‘POLITICAL AND MILITARY AFFAIRS’ 

This image, taken from video provided by the U.S. Navy, shows an craft launching from the USS Harry S. Truman successful the Red Sea earlier airstrikes successful Sanaa, Yemen, connected Saturday, March 15. (U.S. Navy via AP)

"Iran has played 'the guiltless victim' of rogue terrorists from which they’ve mislaid control, but they haven’t mislaid control," helium continued. "They’re dictating each move, giving them the weapons, supplying them with wealth and highly blase Military equipment, and even, so-called, "Intelligence.'" 

U.S. Central Command said Saturday it had "initiated a bid of operations consisting of precision strikes against Iran-backed Houthi targets crossed Yemen to support American interests, deter enemies, and reconstruct state of navigation."    

This representation taken from video provided by the U.S. Navy shows an craft launching from the USS Harry S. Truman successful the Red Sea earlier airstrikes successful Sanaa, Yemen, connected Saturday, March 15. (U.S. Navy via AP)

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Trump wrote connected Truth Social Saturday that helium "ordered the United States Military to motorboat decisive and almighty Military enactment against the Houthi terrorists successful Yemen." 

Fox News’ Taylor Penley, Andrea Margolis and Lucas Y. Tomlinson contributed to this report.