Iran Guards vow to retaliate against any attack after Trump warning
The Hindu
Trump orders U.S. strikes on Houthis, Iran threatens "decisive" response, escalating tensions in the Middle East.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Sunday (March 16, 2025) threatened a "decisive" response to any attack, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a wave of air strikes against Yemen's Houthi rebels and warned Tehran to stop backing the group.
On Saturday (March 15, 2025), Mr. Trump said the United States had launched "decisive and powerful military action" to end the Houthi threat to Red Sea shipping, and warned Iran's support for the rebels "must end immediately". A Houthi health official said the strikes had killed 31 people.
Iranian Guards chief Hossein Salami denounced Mr. Trump's threats in a televised speech on Sunday (March 16, 2025), adding that "Iran will not wage war, but if anyone threatens, it will give appropriate, decisive and conclusive responses".
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The commander called the Houthis "the representative of the Yemenis", adding the group made its "strategic and operational decisions" independently.
In January 2020, during Mr. Trump's first term, the U.S. killed the commander of the Guards' foreign operations arms, Qassem Soleimani, in a drone strike in Baghdad.
Days later, Iran retaliated by firing missiles at bases in Iraq housing American and other coalition troops. No U.S. personnel were killed but Washington said dozens suffered traumatic brain injuries.
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