Yemen’s Houthi terror organization claimed that they had attacked the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier as well as several American warships in the Red Sea in a Sunday statement.

The attack came after President Donald Trump of the United States of America ordered air strikes against the rebels who operate from Yemeni coats and launch attacks in international merchant navy. President Trump had said the strikes by the US Navy were a warning both to the rebels and Iranian government which Trump had blamed for arming the terror group.

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Also following the Attack, Iran denied complicity in the activities of the Houthis which have been part of the so called axis of resistance funded and armed by Iran.

In response to the strikes by US Navy, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said that they would not hesitate to continue to strike US assets in the region and that its naval blockade on Israel would continue.

The Houthis had targeted more than 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two and killing four sailors, during their campaign targeting military and civilian ships between the start of the war in Gaza and this January.

“If they continue their aggression, we will continue the escalation,” Abdul Malik al-Houthi added in a televised speech.

These announcements come in response to the US conducting a series of airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.  The Houthis said that dozens were injured in the strikes.

Meanwhile, Iran on Sunday again denied aiding Yemen’s Houthi rebels after the United States launched a wave of airstrikes against them and President Trump warned that Tehran would be held “fully accountable” for their actions.

The Houthi-run Health Ministry said the weekend strikes killed at least 31 people, including women and children, and wounded more than 100. The rebels said one strike hit two homes in northern Saada province, killing four children and a woman. The rebel-run Al-Masirah TV showed images of what it said were the bodies.

The Houthis have repeatedly targeted international commercial shipping in the Red Sea and launched missiles and drones at Israel in what the rebels have called acts of solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has been at war with Hamas, another Iranian ally.

The U.S. airstrikes were one of the most extensive attacks against the Houthis since the war in Gaza began in October 2023.

Trump’s national security adviseor, Michael Waltz, on Sunday stated that the strikes “actually targeted multiple Houthi leaders and took them out.”

The U.S. and others have long accused Iran of providing military aid to the Houthis. The U.S. Navy has seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weaponry it said were bound for the militant group, which controls Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and the country’s north.

Gen. Hossein Salami, head of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, denied his country was involved in the Houthis’ attacks, saying it “plays no role in setting the national or operational policies” of the militant groups it is allied with across the region.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, writing in a post on X, urged the U.S. to halt the strikes and said Washington cannot dictate Iran’s foreign policy.

Trump on Saturday vowed to use “overwhelming lethal force” until the Houthis cease their attacks on shipping along the vital maritime corridor.

The United States, Israel and Britain previously hit Houthi-held areas in Yemen, but Saturday’s operation was conducted solely by the U.S. It was the first strike on the Houthis under the second Trump administration.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for “utmost restraint and a cessation of all military activities” in Yemen, his spokesperson said.