JAKARTA - Iran welcomed the end of the US attack on Yemen after agreeing with the Houthis.
This was conveyed by a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, May 7, after President Donald Trump announced Washington would stop bombing Yemen's Houthis militia allied with Iran.
Trump said Yemen's Houthis had agreed to stop disrupting key shipping routes in the Middle East.
Under the agreement, neither the US nor the Houthis will attack each other, including US ships in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait, mediator Oman said.
Meanwhile, the Houthis confirmed that a ceasefire agreement between their group and the United States (US) does not apply to Israel.
US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the US would stop bombing the Houthis allied to Iran in Yemen, saying the group had agreed to stop attacking US ships.
After Trump made the announcement, Oman said he had mediated a ceasefire agreement to stop attacks on US ships.
There have been no reports of Houthi attacks on shipments in the Red Sea region since January.
"The agreement does not involve Israel in any form or manner," Mohammed Abdulsalam, Houthi's chief negotiator, told Reuters on Wednesday, May 7.
"As long as they announce the termination (of the US attack) and they are truly committed to it, our position is to defend ourselves so we will stop," he added.
While tensions may have eased between the United States and the Houthis, the years-long formidable force of the Saudi-led massive bombings in Yemen's civil war, the agreement does not rule out attacks on Israeli-related ships or other targets.
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The US intensified attacks on the Houthis this year to stop attacks on shipments of goods in the Red Sea. Human rights activists have voiced concerns over the fall of civilian casualties.
"They said 'please don't bomb us anymore and we won't attack your ships'," Trump said of the Houthis during a meeting in the Oval Room with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
"And I will accept their words, and we will stop bombings of the Houthis from now on," he said.
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