Iran-backed terror proxy Houthis threaten fresh attacks after Yemen airport strike

The U.S.-designated violent Houthi question that controls bluish Yemen condemned Saudi Arabia for allegedly targeting the Sanna airdrome with airstrikes, sparking a imaginable caller beforehand with Iran’s terror-proxy.

While the Houthis agreed to a 2022 truce with the Saudi-led conjugation that opposes its rule, the Houthis person often disrupted commercialized shipping successful the Red Sea since they joined Hamas pursuing its penetration of Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023. The latest flare up of subject strikes could pb to a resumption of warfare betwixt the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Houthis.

Houthi subject spokesperson Yahya Saree called the attacks "blatant aggression" and said they had ended a play of de-escalation. He said Saudi Arabia would carnivore the consequences and that the onslaught would not spell unanswered. The Houthis threatened to onslaught King Khalid Airport successful Riyadh successful Saudi Arabia. Iran's Press TV reported connected its X relationship that, "Iran condemns Saudi onslaught connected Sana'a airdrome arsenic breach of law, Yemen sovereignty."

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Smoke rises pursuing an airstrike astatine Sanaa International Airport, successful Sanaa, Yemen, July 13, 2026, successful this screengrab taken from a video. (Al Masirah Handout via Reuters)

The authoritative slogan of the Houthi question (Ansar Allah) is: "God is great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse upon the Jews, Victory to Islam."

Earlier connected Monday, the government's defence ministry said the runway ⁠at Sanaa International Airport had been targeted to forestall an Iranian level from landing. An equipped forces spokesperson aboriginal said the craft had landed astatine Houthi-controlled ​Hodeidah airport.

Salman Al-Ansari, a salient Saudi geopolitical analyst, told Fox News Digital, "The Iranian-backed Houthi militia is present successful a hopeless position, attempting to show its usefulness to its Iranian masters amid the ongoing U.S.-Iran war."

Yemen's Iran-backed equipped Houthi radical has warned they volition determination to shutter the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait done missile-drone attacks if Gulf nations articulation the US-Israel warfare connected Iran.  (Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

He said, "This is an enactment taken by Yemen’s morganatic authorities successful effect to the usurpation of its airspace and sovereignty. It was not carried retired by Saudi Arabia oregon the coalition. Yemeni forces struck the runway astatine Sana’a International Airport aft the violent Houthi militia defied planetary instrumentality by allowing unauthorized Iranian flights into Yemen, contempt measures intended to forestall the smuggling of weapons and explosives."

According to Al-Ansari, "The Houthis cognize that these flights tin onshore usually if they travel the agreed-upon way done a Jordanian airport, for inspection purposes. The Houthis are presently astatine 1 of their weakest points, peculiarly aft Yemen’s morganatic authorities consolidated effectual authorization implicit 80% of the country’s territory. This is simply a marked departure from the past, erstwhile the morganatic authorities was fragmented betwixt 2 rival camps."

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A Houthi rebel combatant fires successful the aerial during a gathering aimed astatine mobilizing much fighters for the their movement, successful Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. The struggle successful Yemen began with the 2014 takeover of Sanaa by the Houthis, who drove retired the internationally-recognized government. Months later, successful March 2015, a Saudi-led conjugation launched its aerial run to forestall the rebels from overrunning the country's south. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Israel, Lebanon and different Sunni Gulf countries person expressed concerns astir the Iranian regime's program to found a alleged "Shiite crescent" that stretches from Iran to Lebanon and includes specified violent proxies arsenic the Houthis and Hezbollah successful Lebanon.

Al-Ansari noted that "By confronting the Houthis, Yemen’s morganatic authorities is not lone defending its ain sovereignty; it is helping safeguard the portion and the wider satellite from Iran’s web of violent proxies."

Nadwa Al-Dawsari, an adept connected Yemen and an subordinate chap astatine the Middle East Institute, told Fox News Digital that, "The Houthis’ informing that the onslaught connected Sana’a airdrome ‘will not spell unanswered’ should beryllium taken seriously. But the value of the incidental extends good beyond the imaginable of retaliation.

She said, "The quality was ne'er truly astir civilian aviation oregon simply returning a Houthi delegation from Tehran. The Yemeni authorities had agreed to facilitate the delegation’s instrumentality aboard a Yemenia aircraft. The contented was the Iranian craft itself."

Houthi terrorists locomotion implicit British and U.S. flags astatine a rally successful enactment of Palestinians successful the Gaza Strip, and the caller Houthi strikes connected shipping successful the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden connected Feb. 4, 2024, connected the outskirts of Sana'a, Yemen.  (Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

She added that "By proceeding with the Mahan Air formation contempt Yemeni objections and ensuring that it reached Houthi-controlled Yemen anyway, Iran and the Houthis were sending a governmental message: Tehran intends to normalize nonstop and nationalist ties with Houthi-controlled Yemen and is consenting to situation the restrictions that person governed entree to the state since 2015."

The U.S. authorities sanctioned Mahan Air for its relation successful supplying weapons and exertion to violent groups specified arsenic Hezbollah. 

Al-Dawsari said, "What we are progressively seeing is simply a signifier successful which Iran and its proxies make facts connected the ground, betting that determination and planetary actors person small appetite for escalation and volition yet set to them. We person seen the aforesaid attack successful the Strait of Hormuz."

Pro-Iran protesters brandish billboards depicting the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei, flags of Yemen and Iran, weapons, and chant slogans arsenic they instrumentality portion successful a rally held to condemn the US-Israel aerial attacks connected Iran and sidesplitting the Iranian ultimate person and respective subject officials connected March 1, 2026 successful Sana'a, Yemen.  (Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

She said, "The occurrence besides highlights the Houthis’ increasing value wrong Iran’s determination network. While different members of the Axis of Resistance person been weakened successful caller years, the Houthis person emerged arsenic Tehran’s astir susceptible and strategically important partners, peculiarly successful the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa."

According to Reuters, the Saudi ​government's connection bureau did not instantly respond to the accusations.

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Muhammad Al-Farah, a subordinate of the Houthi Political Bureau, wrote connected Telegram, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), that the alleged Saudi onslaught volition pb to the Bab al-Mandab Strait joining the Strait of Hormuz with respect to disruption and imaginable closure. As a result, the terms of a tube of lipid volition emergence to $200 and the attacks springiness the Houthis a crushed to "strike backmost and liberate Yemen from occupation."

Fox News Digital sent property queries to the State Department and the White House.

Reuters contributed to this report.