Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei said, “There is a broad consensus that the Zionist entity lost the war in Gaza and has become defeated and disintegrated,” praising what the Houthis are doing in the Red Sea.
In a meeting with Friday imams in the “Husseiniyah of Imam Khomeini” in the capital, Tehran, the Iranian leader said that the peoples of the world, Muslims and non-Muslims, believe that “the usurping Zionist entity is cruel, unjust, and thirsty for blood. It is sad, defeated, and disintegrated, and the entire world agrees that the people of Gaza are oppressed.” And victorious.”
Khamenei also said that the Yemenis “cut off Israel’s vital arteries and did not fear the threats of the United States,” describing what the Houthis are doing in support of Palestine as “a great work that deserves praise and appreciation.”
He expressed his hope that “these efforts, resistance, and activities will continue until victory, God Almighty willing.”
In solidarity with the Gaza Strip, which has been exposed since October 7 to a devastating Israeli war with Western support, the Houthis are targeting, with missiles and drones, cargo ships in the Red Sea that are owned or operated by Israeli companies or that transport goods to and from Israel.
This led to the White House announcing in a joint statement from 10 countries that American and British forces carried out joint attacks against targets in areas controlled by the Houthis in Yemen.
In the response of the Houthis, the military spokesman for the Ansar Allah group (Houthis), Yahya Saree, said – yesterday, Monday – that the group considers the American and British ships among its military targets “until the aggression against the Gaza Strip stops,” stressing the continuation of trade movement in the Arab and Red Bahrain to all destinations. “Except the ports of occupied Palestine.”
