Hawzah News Agency- Leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement Abdul-Malik al-Houthi has warned the United States that there are more options which the country will use should Washington continue its attacks on Yemen, after the Arab country targeted an American aircraft carrier in the Red Sea.

Al-Houthi issued the warning on Sunday night, hours after the Yemeni army said it had targeted USS Harry S. Truman and its accompanying warships with 18 ballistic and cruise missiles and a drone in retaliation for dozens of airstrikes the U.S. launched a day earlier on multiple locations across Yemen.

The U.S. launched the “blatant aggression” after Yemen pledged several days ago that it would ban the passage of any Israeli-linked in the Red and Arabian Seas unless the regime lifts its siege on Gaza, which it imposed on March 2 to pressure Hamas to accept its own terms of conditions for a ceasefire in Gaza.

The Ansarullah leader said that the U.S.’s attacks on Yemen are aimed at supporting Israel, emphasizing that Washington will fail to achieve its goal of pressuring Yemen to abandon its “moral commitment” towards Gaza, Yemen’s September 26 news website reported.

Yemen will reciprocate if it faces an escalation of attacks, and will respond to the U.S. by targeting its aircraft carriers and warships, and blocking the passage of the “enemy’s vessels,” al-Houthi warned.

“We will use more options if the U.S. aggression continues,” he said.

Source: IRNA