Yemen's Houthi rebels on Saturday sharply warned the US against attacking Iran, amid reports of six B-2 stealth bombers being flown to a US Air Force base in Guam, an American territory in Micronesia, situated in the Western Pacific Ocean.
“In the event of the American involvement in the attack and aggression against Iran with the Israeli enemy, the armed forces will target its ships and warships in the Red Sea,” warned Houthi military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree, in a video statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces. He argued that any attack on Iran would be perceived to be in alignment with Israeli attacks.
Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araqchi has repeatedly warned US President Donald Trump not to get involved in its “aggression” with Israel, which is nearing its tenth day.
Tel Aviv's latest offensive on the western Iranian city of Sumar has killed at least five army personnel and wounded nine others, a Guardian report said, quoting a provincial official.
Speaking in Istanbul on the sidelines of an Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting, he reiterated that America's involvement would be “very, very dangerous”.
Yet, six American B-2 stealth bombers on Saturday took off from Missouri's Whiteman Air Force Base, and are predicted to be enroute to a US Air Force base in Guam. These aircraft were accompanied by four Boeing KC-46 Pegasus refuelling planes, two of which had already refuelled the bombers over the Pacific Ocean.
This escalatory move closer to the Middle East comes amid Trump's two-week period—in which final attempts at nuclear negotiations with Iran were to be made before the US bombed them.
It is widely speculated that the B-2 bombers could be carrying 13.6-tonne bunker-buster bombs, the only explosives capable of penetrating and destroying Fordow, Iran's fortified underground nuclear facility.
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American assets now under threat of Houthi attacks include carrier strike groups (CSGs) led by the USS Carl Vinson (which already oversees operations in the Middle East for the US) and the USS Nimitz (which is currently advancing towards the Middle East from the Indo-Pacific). In addition to those, a third CSG led by the USS Gerald R. Ford will soon be deployed in the area.
So far, Europe-mediated efforts at bringing the US and Iran together for direct talks have fallen flat, as Tehran refuses negotiations amid Israeli offensives, and Trump claims that there was no hope to resolve the conflict through talks as Tel Aviv was “very hard to stop”.
