The risk of an expanded Iran war grew on Saturday as Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis launched their first attacks on Israel, and additional U.S. forces reached the Middle East.
WASHINGTON — The risk of an expanded Iran war grew on Saturday as Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis launched their first attacks on Israel since the start of the conflict, even as additional U.S. forces reached the Middle East.
Speaking before the strike, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States expected to conclude military operations within weeks, although a new deployment of Marines started arriving in the region. The Houthis said they would continue their operations until the "aggression" on all fronts ended.Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian spoke to Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose government hosts a meeting with the Turkish and Saudi foreign ministers on Sunday to seek to ease regional tensions.But there is no sign of an immediate diplomatic breakthrough and the war, launched with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, has spread across the Middle East, killing thousands and hitting the world economy with the biggest-ever disruption to global energy supplies.On Saturday, Israel said it had carried out a wave of attacks on Tehran, targeting what the military said were infrastructure sites belonging to Iran's government.Lebanese journalists, rescue workers hitIt also hit targets in Lebanon, where it has resumed its war against Iran-backed Hezbollah, killing three Lebanese journalists in a strike on a media vehicle, Lebanon's Al Manar TV reported, as well as a Lebanese soldier. A follow‑up strike on the rescue workers sent to assist them also caused fatalities.Israel's military said it had targeted one of the journalists, whom it called a "terrorist," accusing him of being part of a Hezbollah intelligence unit, and saying he had reported on locations of Israeli soldiers.Iran kept up attacks on Israel and several Gulf states after hitting an air base in Saudi Arabia on Friday and wounding 12 U.S. military personnel, two of them seriously, in one of the most serious breaches of U.S. air defenses so far. People attend at a protest against Israel and the U.S. strikes on Iran, following the killing of Ali Khamenei, in Sanaa, Yemen, March 1. The Yemen-based Houthis entered the Iran war with their first strikes against Israel on Saturday. Washington has dispatched two contingents of thousands of Marines to the Middle East, the first of which arrived on Friday on an amphibious assault ship, the military said on Saturday.The U.S. could achieve its aims without ground tro
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