Athens/Washington ¨C Yemen¡¯s Iran-aligned Houthi militants fired on Saudi oil installations in two ports on the Red Sea coast on Saturday, but the U.S. held back from launching airstrikes on Iran for the first night in two weeks.
Washington gave no immediate explanation of why it had abruptly halted a streak of 13 nights of escalating strikes in retaliation for ?Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz since an interim deal to end hostilities collapsed.
¡°It seems that our dear Iran had ?a peaceful ?night last night,¡± Health Ministry spokesperson Hossein Kermanpour said on X.
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