The Houthi rebels in Yemen, which Obama referred to as an anti-terrorist success, have fired on U.S. forces for the third time this week.
Watch below:
From NBC news:
The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Mason was fired on again in international waters off the coast of Yemen, but the ship deployed countermeasures and the vessel was not struck, two U.S. officials said.
The incident occurred late Saturday or early Sunday local time. At least one missile was fired, the officials said.
The destroyer was targeted by missiles fired from rebel-controlled areas in Yemen twice earlier this week, prompting the U.S. military to launch cruise missiles that destroyed three radar sites in response.
After the earlier attempted missile attacks this week, a Defense Department official warned that those who fire on U.S. vessels do so at their peril.
Earlier:
RED SEA TENSIONS: Iran deploys warships to coast off Yemen less than a day after U.S. fires at rebels in retaliation for two failed attacks pic.twitter.com/AG8GuG3WFo
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) October 14, 2016
And from the first two times they fired at the USS Mason:
Iran is fighting a proxy war with Saudi Arabia for control of Yemen, and the United States has been backing the Sauds the whole time that we’re assuring people that we can trust the Iranians in the Iran Deal. Make sense to you? Yeah, me neither.