Attacks on Israel-bound ships in Red Sea ‘a pure Yemeni decision’: Top diplomat

Yemen’s Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf has categorically rejected US claims about Iran’s role in helping Yemen strike Israeli-owned and -bound ships in the strategic Red Sea, saying the decision was purely by the Yemeni government and armed forces in support of the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

“The Yemeni government in Sana’a is the one who has taken that decision and that decision was based on solid grounds not to allow the Israeli aggression to continue on our brothers in Palestine, in Gaza and in different areas of the occupied land,”…