Unprecedented !The United States and Britain want to issue a final warning to the Houthis

Mondo games Updated on 2024-01-31

According to the British "Daily Telegraph" on December 31, 2023, British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps warned that the UK would not hesitate to take "direct action" against the Houthi attack on Red Sea cargo ships.

In an article for The Telegraph, Shapps highlighted the fact that earlier this month, the British destroyer HMS Diamond shot down a Houthi attack drone in self-defense in the Red Sea.

"As the Diamond made clear earlier this month, we want to take direct action, and we will not hesitate to take further action to contain threats to freedom of navigation in the Red Sea," he said. Let the Houthis not get me wrong: we will hold accountable those who illegally seized and attacked [the boats]." ”

According to the report, the United States and the United Kingdom are preparing an unprecedented joint statement that will send a "final verbal warning" to the Houthis to stop the attacks. One of the options being considered by the British Ministry of Defense is the transfer of the frigate "Lancaster" operating in the Gulf to the Red Sea in support of the destroyer "Diamond" there.

According to Reuters on December 31, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on the same day that he made it clear that Iran also has a responsibility to prevent the Houthis from launching attacks in the Red Sea.

Cameron reportedly said on social media: "I made it clear that Iran also has a responsibility to stop these attacks, given Iran's long-standing support for the Houthis." (Compiled by Qing Songzhu and Liu Zongya).

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