USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT CREW SHOULD TAKE LESSONS FROM EISENHOWER FATE: YEMEN

Yemen has reacted to the upcoming deployment of the USS Theodore Roosevelt
aircraft carrier in West Asia and the departure of its predecessor USS Dwight
D.  Eisenhower from the Red Sea, urging incoming US marines to “learn their
lesson” from the fate of their outgoing counterparts.

By Presstv

Yemen has reacted to the upcoming deployment of the USS Theodore Roosevelt
aircraft carrier in West Asia and the departure of its predecessor USS Dwight
D. Eisenhower from the Red Sea, urging incoming US marines to “learn their
lesson” from the fate of their outgoing counterparts.  “We advise marines
aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier to inquire about the situation
of their counterparts on USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, and learn their lesson,”
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, said.

Houthi was referring to the multiple maritime operations that Yemeni naval
units have carried out against Eisenhower aircraft carrier in response to US
and British strikes on Yemen, and in solidarity with the Gaza Strip, which has
been reeling from a no- holds-barred Israeli war since October 7 last year.
The US military said the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) has
departed the Red Sea after more than eight months of deployment.

The USNI News later reported that the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71),
currently in the Pacific, will leave for West Asia to continue a US presence
mission in the region.  The announcement came hours after Yemeni Army’s
Spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said on Saturday the country’s naval
units had conducted a missile attack on US aircraft carrier Eisenhower in the
Red Sea.  Saree said that the USS Eisenhower was targeted “directly” by several
ballistic and cruise missiles.  Hazam al-Assad, a member of Ansarullah’s
political bureau, also stated that Yemeni forces will press ahead with their
pro-Palestinian operations.

“Attacks against US, British, and Israeli interests will continue. This is in
line with Yemen’s unwavering support for the Palestinians in Gaza,” he
said.Yemenis have declared their open support for Palestine’s struggle against
the Israeli occupation since the regime launched a devastating war on Gaza on
October 7 after the territory’s Palestinian resistance movements carried out a
surprise retaliatory attack, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, against the
occupying entity.  The Yemeni Armed Forces have said that they won’t stop their
attacks until unrelenting Israeli ground and aerial offensives in Gaza end.

Israel has killed nearly 37,600 people and wounded over 85,900 individuals in
Gaza since October.  Leader of the Ansarullah resistance movement Abdul-Malik
al-Houthi has said it is “a great honor and blessing to be confronting America
directly.” The attacks have forced some of the world’s biggest shipping and oil
companies to suspend transit through one of the world’s most important maritime
trade routes. Tankers are instead adding thousands of miles to international
shipping routes by sailing around the continent of Africa rather than going
through the Suez Canal.