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Khamenei says Houthis act independently, warns against US strikes on Iran
2025-03-22
[IsraelTimes] Supreme leader, in televised speech, rejects Trump’s vow to hold Tehran responsible for attacks by Iran-backed Yemen group, which fired at Israel this week amid US strikes

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...>
said Friday that the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s, an Iran-aligned terror group that controls much of Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, act on their own motivations, after US President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
said he would hold Tehran accountable for the group’s actions.

Khamenei also warned, "If the US or anyone else commits any malicious act against Iran, they will receive a severe blow," in comments made in a televised speech, echoed by official social media posts.

Trump said Monday that he would hold Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
responsible for any attacks carried out by the Houthis, as the American military carried out waves of strikes against the group, marking the biggest US military operation in the Middle East since he returned to the White House.

The Houthis, whose slogan calls for "death to America, death to Israel, [and] a curse on the Jews," have fired four missiles at Israel since Tuesday, all of which were intercepted, and none of which caused any casualties.

The group resumed its attacks on Israel after fighting resumed in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, amid the collapse of a hostage-ceasefire deal with the Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...
terror group.

Americans, said Khamenei on Friday, "make a big mistake and call regional resistance centers Iranian proxies. What does proxy mean?"

"The Yemeni nation has its own motivation and the resistance groups in the region have their own motivations. Iran doesn’t need proxies," Khamenei said.

The US "issue threats," he added, but "we have never started a confrontation or conflict with anyone. However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
if anyone acts with malice and initiates it, they will receive severe slaps."

Over the years, Iran has been aligned with groups across the region that describe themselves as the "Axis of Resistance®" to Israel and US influence. Those groups include Hamas, Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
’s Hezbollah and various Shiite terror groups in Iraq and Syria.

The Islamic Theocratic Republic also counted the Syrian regime of Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
— ousted by Salafist tough guys in December — as an ally.

The Houthis began attacking ships in the Red Sea in November 2023, a month after Hamas stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.

While the Houthis have said they were attacking Israeli-linked shipping in support of Gaza, they have also targeted vessels with no known Israeli connections.

The Iran-backed rebels also fired some 40 ballistic missiles at Israel, from November 2023 until just days before the Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal was reached in January 2025. They also launched several attack drones at Israel, including one that killed a civilian and maimed several others in Tel Aviv in July.

Responding to the attacks, Israel has carried out several strikes on Houthi sites in Yemen.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Mask really needs to get StarShip working so massive Rods From God arrays can be placed in orbit to selectively take out perps like Khamenei as just freak meteor strikes.
Posted by: 3dc   2025-03-22 15:39  

#2  "Wuzn't us. Wuz dem udder guys."
Posted by: Mercutio   2025-03-22 10:50  

#1  
Khamenei can't even cite a believeable Lie.

It is common knowledge, and Iran leaders have even publicly said: Iran supports the Houthi movement in Yemen, by providing various funds for military, and logistical support.


Khamenei and the inter-circle can see the USA finally has President, with both Congression and Voter support willing to correct, or at least seriously address Global Terrorism.
Posted by: NN2N1   2025-03-22 07:31  

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