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

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

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

Houthi subject spokesperson Yahya Saree called nan attacks "blatant aggression" and said they had ended a play of de-escalation. He said Saudi Arabia would carnivore nan consequences and that nan 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 charismatic motto of nan Houthi activity (Ansar Allah) is: "God is great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse upon nan Jews, Victory to Islam."

Earlier connected Monday, nan government's defense ministry said nan runway ⁠at Sanaa International Airport had been targeted to forestall an Iranian level from landing. An equipped forces spokesperson later said nan 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 now successful a hopeless position, attempting to show its usefulness to its Iranian masters amid nan ongoing U.S.-Iran war."

Yemen's Iran-backed equipped Houthi group has warned they will move to shutter nan Bab Al-Mandeb Strait done missile-drone attacks if Gulf nations subordinate nan US-Israel warfare connected Iran.  (Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

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

According to Al-Ansari, "The Houthis cognize that these flights tin onshore usually if they travel nan 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 effective authority complete 80% of nan country’s territory. This is simply a marked departure from nan past, erstwhile nan morganatic authorities was fragmented betwixt 2 rival camps."

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

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

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

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

She said, "The conflict was ne'er really astir civilian aviation aliases simply returning a Houthi delegation from Tehran. The Yemeni authorities had agreed to facilitate nan delegation’s return aboard a Yemenia aircraft. The rumor was nan Iranian craft itself."

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

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

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

Al-Dawsari said, "What we are progressively seeing is simply a shape successful which Iran and its proxies create facts connected nan ground, betting that location and world actors person small appetite for escalation and will yet set to them. We person seen nan aforesaid attack successful nan Strait of Hormuz."

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

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

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

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

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

Reuters contributed to this report.