US President Donald Trump has threatened that strikes on Yemen’s Huthis will continue until they no longer pose a threat to shipping.
Trump has warned the rebels and their Iranian backers that “real pain” is yet to come.
This comes amid a scandal over a conversation between senior US officials regarding the Yemen strikes, which was accidentally leaked to a journalist.
“The choice for the Huthis is clear: Stop shooting at US ships, and we will stop shooting at you. Otherwise, we have only just begun, and the real pain is yet to come, for both the Huthis and their sponsors in Iran,” Trump wrote on X.
Trump also claimed that the Huthis had been “decimated” by “relentless” strikes since 15 March.
According to him, US forces “hit them every day and night—harder and harder.”
“Our attacks will continue until they are no longer a threat to Freedom of Navigation,” he stated on his social media platform.
In recent days, Trump has repeatedly insisted on what he calls the success of US strikes on the Huthis whenever questioned about the so-called “Signalgate” scandal, which has shaken his administration.
