Iran Refutes Reports of Casualties in US Airstrike on Yemen

Tehran (The Uttam Hindu): Iran has denied reports of casualties following a US airstrike on Yemen. According to Iran's Tasnim news agency, which has strong ties to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), no Iranian personnel were killed in the attack. The denial came after Yemen’s Minister of Information, Moammar al-Eryani, claimed that 70 members of the Houthi group, including senior commanders and Iranian experts, were killed in the US airstrike on Tuesday.

The strike, which targeted a Houthi gathering in Al-Fazah, a coastal area in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, was disputed by Iran. Tasnim dismissed the claims as false, emphasizing that no Iranian forces were killed in the incident and asserting that the report was part of a broader anti-Iran psychological campaign aimed at inflaming tensions in the region. Iran reiterated its position that Houthi forces are independently fighting against the US and Israel.

In a separate incident on Saturday, at least one person was killed, and four others were wounded in US airstrikes on a solar energy store and a house in Yemen's northern city of Saada. Civil defense teams were working to extinguish fires and search for victims in the Hafsin area of Saada city.