BEIRUT/DUBAI/NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey ¨C Israel?said on Monday it hit a petrochemical plant in Iran¡¯s southwest, along with strikes elsewhere on military targets, after U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from further attacks.
In the first hit on an energy site inside Iran since the April 8 ceasefire, Israel said it struck targets at the Mahshahr petrochemical complex, while a provincial official told Iran¡¯s semiofficial Fars news agency parts of the plant were damaged. Yemen¡¯s Iran-aligned Houthis pledged to stop Israel¡¯s maritime navigation in the Red Sea, and said they were behind the first missile attack on Israel since ?the ceasefire, which spurred the Israeli military to activate aerial defense systems.
¡°We consider all enemy movements to be legitimate military targets for our armed forces,¡± the Houthis said.
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