Yemen vows military escalation if US, Israel resume war on Iran

Yemen’s Foreign Ministry says the Arab country’s position remains steadfast in active participation and escalation of military operations if the United States and the Israeli regime resume their war of aggression against Iran and the Axis of Resistance.

In a statement on Monday, the ministry warned that any renewal of the US aggression in the region or at the level of naval escalation will cast a negative shadow on supply chains, energy prices, and the entire global economy.

The escalation in the rhetoric of the criminal US President Donald Trump -- moving military confrontations to the high seas – proves the failure and futility of the US-Israel military aggression against Iran, it said.

It pointed to two rounds of wars against Iran in June 2025 and February 2026 and added that the criminal Trump and his partners aspired to overthrow the Islamic Republic.

Now, the US president seeks to open the Strait of Hormuz, but he will fail to achieve such a goal, the ministry emphasized.

The statement comes after US President Donald Trump, in a post on his Truth Social on Sunday, said that American naval forces will impose a full naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

“Effective immediately,” he wrote, adding, the US Navy “will begin the process of blockading any and all ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz.”

Military ships approaching Hormuz Strait ‘a violation of ceasefire’, IRGC warns

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) warns that any attempt by military vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz will be deemed a violation of the two-week ceasefire with the United States.

Trump claimed that the US Navy will “begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits, urging Iran to “end this situation.”

He once again threatened that the US military is “fully locked and loaded” and “will finish up the little that is left of Iran.”

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf responded to Trump’s remarks, saying the language of threats does not work with Iran. He added that Iran had demonstrated since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that it would not yield under military, economic or political pressure.

Addressing Trump directly, Qalibaf said, “If you go to war, we will fight you, and if you come forward with logic, we will treat you logically. We will not bow to any threat. Test our resolve once again, so that we will teach (you) a greater lesson.”

The Yemeni Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry further pointed to the latest round of talks between Iran and the United States in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad and said the steadfastness of the Iranian negotiating team constitutes a new victory for the Islamic Republic and the Axis of Resistance.

At the negotiating table, it added, the US sought to impose what it had failed to achieve through military confrontations on the ground during 40 days of unlawful joint war of aggression with the Israeli regime against Iran.

Despite approximately 21 hours of negotiations and diplomatic efforts by high-ranking Iranian and American negotiators in Islamabad, the US's excessive demands prevented reaching an agreement.

The Iranian delegation presented various initiatives during the talks, but the Americans obstructed progress in the talks.

The Islamabad talks follow a 40-day war of aggression by the US-Israeli axis against the Islamic Republic, which was paused after the US accepted Iran's proposal for a permanent ceasefire.

During the war, Iranian Armed Forces unleashed 100 waves of successful retaliatory strikes against sensitive and strategic American and Israeli targets throughout the region.

They also blocked the Strait of Hormuz to oil and gas tankers affiliated with the adversaries and those cooperating with them in an attempt to maintain security at the strategic waterway.

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