US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the attacks launched by the Yemeni Houthi group in the Red Sea are "of Iranian origin."

"Don't be fooled," Trump said in a post on his Truth Social account. "All attacks by the Houthis, a vicious gang and mafia hated by the Yemeni people, based in Yemen, are coming from Iran."

Trump added that if the Houthis launched any future attacks or retaliation, they would be "responded with great force," noting that "there is no guarantee where this response will stop."

Trump stated that the claim that Iran has lost control of the region "does not reflect reality," emphasizing that "the Houthis carry out all their actions based on orders from Iran, and Tehran provides them with money, weapons, intelligence, and advanced military equipment."

Trump added that the United States would consider any attack by the Houthis "an attack by Iran," and that Iran "will be responsible for these attacks in the Red Sea," and its government "will have to bear the terrible consequences."

Trump's remarks came after the Houthis announced that US forces had carried out airstrikes on the Hodeidah and Al Jawf regions of Yemen.

On Saturday, US President Donald Trump announced that he had ordered his country's military to launch a "major attack" against the Houthis in Yemen.

These are the first strikes on Yemen since the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in Gaza came into effect on January 19, 2025.

In "solidarity with Gaza" in the face of Israeli genocide, the Houthi group began targeting Israeli-owned or -linked cargo ships in the Red Sea or anywhere within reach with missiles and drones in November 2023.

The Houthis also launched occasional missile and drone attacks on Israel, some of which targeted the central city of Tel Aviv, before halting them with the entry into force of the ceasefire in Gaza.

In response to these attacks, Washington and London began launching airstrikes and missile attacks on "Houthi sites" in Yemen in early 2024. The group responded by announcing that it now considers all American and British ships to be military targets, expanding its attacks to include vessels passing through the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, and anywhere within reach of its weapons.

On March 1, 2025, the first phase of the Gaza agreement ended, and days later, Israel re-closed the crossings to prevent the entry of humanitarian aid into the Palestinian Strip.

After Tel Aviv violated the agreement and closed the crossings again to prevent humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip, at the beginning of March, coinciding with the holy month of Ramadan, the Houthi group announced the resumption of its operations against Israeli ships to pressure them to break the Gaza blockade.