Iranian officials threatened the United States that the regime would respond after Washington launched airstrikes targeting the Houthis in Yemen over the past weekend.
“I warn all enemies that any threat being carried out [against Iran] will draw a tough, decisive, and devastating reaction,” Gen. Hossein Salami, head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, told Iranian state media outlet Tasnim News on Sunday after U.S. strikes were conducted against the Houthis, a terrorist group that is believed be backed by Iran.
On Monday, a spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry told a separate state-run outlet, Press TV, that Tehran will similarly take “decisive action” after the U.S. airstrikes....