Iran on Sunday “strongly” condemned new strikes by the US and UK in Yemen, which it said were “inconsistent” with their stated desire “not to want to expand the conflict” in the Middle East.
Iranian diplomatic spokesman Nasser Al-Kanani considered in a press statement that these attacks constitute “a repeated violation of Yemen’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and a flagrant violation of international law.”
For him, Washington and London “use the military approach to achieve their illegitimate goals.” Their actions “clearly contradict their repeated assertions that they do not want the conflict to spread to the region.”
US President Joe Biden confirmed last Tuesday that he is “not looking” for “a broader war in the Middle East,” against the backdrop of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip.
The United States and the United Kingdom announced that they had targeted 36 rebel targets “in 13 locations in Yemen in response to ongoing attacks launched by the Iranian-backed Houthis” against commercial maritime traffic as well as warships crossing the Red Sea, according to what Reuters reported. To a joint statement.
These air strikes come a day after a series of US strikes against Iranian elite forces and pro-Iranian armed groups in Syria and Iraq, in response to the killing of three American soldiers in Jordan on January 28.
