Iran strongly condemns US attacks in Yemen

WASHINGTON

Iran strongly condemned attacks by the US military over the past 24 hours on various parts of Yemen.

In a statement Monday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei described the US military aggression against Yemen as a "blatant violation" of the Arab country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Baqaei said that targeting residential areas and Yemen’s vital infrastructure constitute "war crimes and crimes against humanity."

He noted that "all regional countries share a collective responsibility to confront the war-mongering by the Zionist regime (of Israel) and the US and their violations of international law."

Yemen has faced an intensified US military campaign since mid-March, including around 1,300 air and naval strikes, resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties, according to the Houthi group.

The Houthis have targeted ships passing through the Red and Arabian seas, the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Gulf of Aden since November 2023 in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where over 52,500 people have been killed in a brutal Israeli assault for more than 19 months, most of them women and children