Mike Huckabee says Trump bombing, bankrupting Iran to protect US

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Monday defended US President Donald Trump’s Iran strategy, saying Trump has done “something no other president has been willing to do and that’s take the fight to them.”“Not only has he done that militarily, he’s certainly bombed them, but he’s also taken steps to bankrupt them,” Huckabee told Newsmax in an interview, arguing that Trump is in the process of “decimating them economically” after striking them militarily.“Iran’s threat is not to Israel, it is to America,” Huckabee added, urging Americans not to view the confrontation through a lens of fatigue.“They’ve been saying it for 47 and a half years.

We need to wake up and understand that they’ve always targeted the Red, White and Blue.So this president, thank God, is finally saying enough of this.”A wave of attacks by the Iranian-backed Houthi terror group wounded 73 people in southern Saudi Arabia on Tuesday and set fires at oil facilities, the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said, according to the Associated Press.Maj.

Gen.Turki al-Malki, a spokesman for the coalition, said the strikes hit “civilian and economic facilities” in Abha, Jazan, Najran and Khamis Mushait.

The wounded included women and children.Fires broke out at several oil facilities and utilities in the kingdom’s southern region, the Saudi Energy Ministry said.Operations there were temporarily suspended.

Firefighters were still battling the blazes on Tuesday morning.Al-Malki called the attacks a “serious escalation” and a “flagrant violation of the kingdom’s sovereignty, and a direct threat to the security and safety of its citizens and residents.”The coalition “will take all necessary operational measures to deter the terrorist Houthi militia with utmost resolve,” he added.American forces have redirected 94 commercial vessels, disabled three and boarded two as part of Washington’s maritime blockade of Iranian ports, US Central Command f...