US Secretary of Defense Pitt Hegshez threatened Iran yesterday Wednesday that it will face “consequences” because it supports Houthi, the rebel movement that controls much of Yemen and puts in the late 2023 targeting ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Red Sea.

“Message in Iran: We see your fatal support for Houthis. You know exactly what you are doing. You know very well what the US Armed Forces are able to do – and you are warned. You will pay the consequences in time and place we will choose ‘, Mr. Hegsheth said via X.

The political leadership in Tehran, including the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatola Hameni, has repeatedly emphasized that the Houthi -part of the so -called ‘Axis of resistance“In Israel and the US, the organizationally loose alliance of movements from Palestinian Hamas to Lebanese Hezbolla and paramilitary organizations in Iraq – they decide and act independently.