“Continuous supply of missiles” –

Tension continues to rise in the Middle East. And the climate is no less hot in the Red Sea, the scene of attacks launched by the Houthis for months. Now Australia and the United Kingdom “condemn in the strongest terms Iran’s destabilizing activities”. This is stated in the joint statement published at the end of the annual Australia-UK Ministerial Consultations which were held today in Adelaide, with the participation of the Australian Foreign and Defense Ministers, Penny Wong and Richard Marles, and their Australian counterparts, David Cameron and Grant Shapps. In the document, the ministers accuse Tehran of “the continued supply of missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and other forms of military and financial support to non-state actors” including the Yemeni Houthi militias, responsible for attacks against commercial ships crossing the Sea Red. The ministers also urge Iran to stop supporting Russia’s war on Ukraine by supplying Moscow with missiles and drones.

Meanwhile, Abdul Malik al Houthi in a televised speech said that the attacks carried out by the Yemeni Shiite group since last November have hit “479 missiles and drones”. “This week, military operations came to the forefront with 18 missiles and drones. Our armed forces conducted operations to target Israeli and US vessels in the Red and Arabian Seas, and an additional operation in the Indian Ocean,” he said. said the leader of the armed group, adding that “the Umm al Rashrash ‘Eilat’ operation was one of our most important missile operations with a cutting-edge missile that managed to reach its target, bypassing all monitoring techniques and US and Israeli interception. This terrified the entity (Israel) and aroused its great concern, as it admitted to being surprised by this.”