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Yemens Ansarullah fires missiles at Israel in support of Iran

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Yemen’s Ansarullah fires missiles at Israel in support of Iran​

TEHRAN- The Yemeni Ansarullah movement announced that it had launched ballistic missiles against Israel on Saturday in retaliation to the Israeli-U.S. war against Iran.

Yemen’s Ansarullah fires missiles at Israel in support of Iran

“The Yemeni Armed Forces, with the help of Allah Almighty and relying upon Allah, have carried out the first military operation using a barrage of ballistic missiles targeting sensitive Israeli military sites in southern occupied Palestine,” CNN quoted the movement as saying in a statement.

The statement said the operation was a direct response to “continued military escalation, the targeting of infrastructure, and the perpetration of crimes and massacres against our brothers in Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, and Palestine.”

An Ansarullah official previously told CNN the group was prepared to join the war in support of Iran, if the U.S. and Israel escalate their attacks.

Closing the Bab al-Mandab Strait off the coast of Yemen – the chokepoint linking the Red Sea to global shipping lanes – is a “viable option,” Mohammed Mansour, undersecretary of the ministry of information, said in a text to CNN.

source: tehrantimes.com