Yemen condemns Iranian missile attacks on Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq
Yemen Herald News 
ADEN, Yemen — Yemen’s foreign ministry condemned Iranian missile attacks on Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq, calling them a violation of the four countries’ sovereignty.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates issued the statement to the Yemeni News Agency, Saba, which carried it from Aden on Wednesday.
The ministry described the attacks as blatant and unjustified. It called them a flagrant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the four countries, according to Saba.
The attacks represent a dangerous escalation, the ministry said.
It said they exposed what it called the nature of the Iranian government, which it described as marked by escalation, destabilisation and the export of crises to countries across the region.
Iran rejects that characterisation. It presents its strikes as retaliation for American attacks on Iranian territory.
The ministry warned that such actions threaten regional and international peace and security. It said they risk turning the region into an open arena for military adventurism.
Responding to the attacks should not be limited to statements of condemnation, the ministry said.
It called for a firm and responsible international stance capable of deterring any party that seeks to impose its will by force.
The ministry reaffirmed Yemen’s solidarity with Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq. It said Yemen supports the measures those four countries take to safeguard their sovereignty, security and stability.
The statement did not name specific sites in any of the four countries.
The account of the statement rests on Saba, the state agency of the internationally recognised government. Yemen Herald found no independent publication of its full text, though Middle East Eye reported the Yemeni condemnation separately.
The attacks the ministry referred to came during an exchange of fire between the United States and Iran. Al Jazeera reported that the two sides had not traded fire on that scale in more than a month.
The United States launched a wave of attacks on southern Iran, and Iran struck back at American bases in Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq, according to the same report.
Kuwait said its air defences confronted Iranian drones and missiles.
Gulf News reported the same wave of Iranian missile and drone attacks on Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Camp Titin in Jordan came under what they called an intense ballistic missile attack, Al Jazeera reported.
The Guards also claimed a combined missile and drone attack on American facilities in Erbil province, in northern Iraq.
They said the strikes destroyed a repair centre and warehouses holding technical equipment, and set fuel tanks alight. Those claims come from the Iranian side and have not been confirmed by the United States.
Air-raid sirens sounded in Bahrain, according to the same account.
The exchange followed an attempt by the Revolutionary Guards to attack American troops and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, Al Jazeera said.
Wednesday’s statement was the second Yemeni condemnation of Iranian attacks in three days.
The foreign ministry condemned Iranian missile and drone attacks on Jordan and the United Arab Emirates in a statement issued on Aug. 31, Saba reported at the time.
The United Arab Emirates condemned what it called Iran’s hostile attacks across the region, The National reported on Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia condemned Iran’s targeting of the tanker Sidr as the vessel crossed the Strait of Hormuz, Saba reported.
Iranian strikes on Gulf states have recurred through the year. A Kuwaiti power plant was set ablaze when Iran struck American allies in the Gulf in July, Al Jazeera reported at the time.
Yemen’s internationally recognised government sits in Aden and is led by the Presidential Leadership Council.
Rashad al-Alimi has chaired the eight-member body since April 2022, when Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi transferred presidential powers to it.
The government accuses Iran of arming and directing the Houthi movement, which holds Sanaa and much of northern Yemen. Iran says it offers the group political support only.
That dispute shapes how the government in Aden responds to Iranian actions elsewhere in the region.
The war between Iran and the United States began on Feb. 28, according to NBC News. Tehran has largely closed the Strait of Hormuz to traffic since then.
That closure pushed shipping towards the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab strait, off Yemen’s west coast.
The Houthis resumed attacks on vessels in the Red Sea on July 22, after a pause of about nine months, NPR reported.
The group said it was targeting Saudi Arabia’s energy and other exports passing through Bab al-Mandab.
About 7 percent of the world’s oil supply moves along the route, according to the same report.
The International Crisis Group lists Bab al-Mandab among the flashpoints it tracks in the confrontation between Iran and the United States.
Ship trackers recorded commercial vessels rerouting after the announcement.
Al-Alimi chaired a joint meeting of the Presidential Leadership Council and the government in Aden on Wednesday, Saba reported. The agenda covered national developments and the implementation of what the council calls integrated deterrence measures.
Council members Tareq Saleh, Abdulrahman al-Muharrami, Abdullah al-Alimi, Othman Mujalli, Mahmoud al-Subaihi and Salem Khanbashi attended, according to the agency.
The ministry did not say whether Yemen would raise the attacks at the United Nations.
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