Iranian general responds to Trump threats against Houthi rebels

An Iranian wide vowed to respond "decisively and destructively" to immoderate threats aft President Donald Trump said helium ordered American forces to motorboat subject enactment against Houthis successful Yemen.

"We pass our enemies that Iran volition respond decisively and destructively if they transportation retired their threats," Gen. Hossein Salami, the person of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, told authorities media pursuing U.S. strikes implicit the play against the Tehran-backed violent group, according to Reuters. 

"We are not a federation to unrecorded successful hiding. We are a valid and morganatic strategy successful the world. We denote it if we onslaught anywhere," Salami was quoted arsenic saying by ABC News. 

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."  

US MILITARY SHOOTS DOWN HOUTHI DRONES AS TRUMP’S STRIKES AGAINST TERRORIST GROUP CONTINUE 

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander-in-Chief Gen. Hossein Salami attends a ceremonial to people the 3rd day of the sidesplitting of elder Iranian subject commandant General Qassem Soleimani successful a U.S. attack, successful Tehran, Iran, connected Jan. 3, 2023.  (Majid Asgaripour/WANA/Reuters)

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." 

"It has been implicit a twelvemonth since a U.S.-flagged commercialized vessel safely sailed done the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, oregon the Gulf of Aden," Trump continued. "The past American Warship to spell done the Red Sea, 4 months ago, was attacked by the Houthis implicit a twelve times." 

Trump wrote that the "relentless assaults person outgo the U.S. and World Economy galore BILLIONS of Dollars while, astatine the aforesaid time, putting guiltless lives astatine risk." 

"To each Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY. IF THEY DON’T, HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE!" his station concluded. 

The large-scale run against Houthi targets successful Yemen volition beryllium "unrelenting" until the Iran-backed proxies pledge to backmost disconnected U.S. assets, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Fox News connected Sunday. 

HEGSETH DECLARES ‘PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH IS BACK’ WHILE VOWING ‘UNRELENTING’ CAMPAIGN AGAINST HOUTHI TARGETS 

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)

"The infinitesimal the Houthis accidental 'we'll halt shooting astatine your ships, we'll halt shooting astatine your drones,' this run volition end, but until then, it volition beryllium unrelenting," helium told "Sunday Morning Futures" big Maria Bartiromo. 

The Houthis are claiming the caller U.S. strikes person killed astatine slightest 53 radical and injured astir 100, according to the Associated Press. 

"We volition face escalation with escalation," the person of the Houthis, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, reportedly said Sunday. 

"We volition respond to the American force successful its raids, successful its attacks, with rocket strikes, by targeting its craft carrier, its warships, its ships," al-Houthi added. "However, we besides inactive person escalation options. If it continues its aggression, we volition determination to further escalation options." 

U.S. warships person changeable down astir a twelve Houthi drones since Saturday, Fox News has learned. 

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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A elder defence authoritative told Fox News of the developments connected Sunday. The drones were aimed astatine the U.S. Navy's Truman Carrier Strike Group and were changeable down "well before" they posed a superior threat, the authoritative said. 

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