{"id":222782,"date":"2026-07-25T23:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/222782\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T23:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:21:15","slug":"us-pauses-nightly-iran-strikes-as-houthis-clash-with-saudis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/222782\/","title":{"rendered":"US pauses nightly Iran strikes, as Houthis clash with Saudis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Skirmishes between Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia intensified, as a pause in the nearly two-week run of nightly US strikes on Iran raised fresh questions about President Donald Trump\u2019s strategy in the war.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Houthis, Islamist militants based in Yemen and backed by Iran, said they fired missiles and drones at facilities linked to oil giant Saudi Aramco in the Red Sea port towns of Jizan and Yanbu.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There was no immediate confirmation from the Saudi government or Aramco. Saudi authorities briefly issued emergency warnings but retracted them and said the danger had passed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Saudi-led coalition responded by striking Houthi military positions later on Saturday, according to Yemen TV, a channel affiliated with the internationally recognised Yemeni government.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The day before, the coalition struck the port from which the Houthis\u2019 maritime attacks normally originate. The Houthis also announced they would blockade Saudi ports and attacked two Saudi-linked oil tankers in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People sit in a fishing boat sailing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off Yemen\u2019s southern Taiz province on Saturday. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/04e63dab-6286-4b39-acef-be0be6302b7c_98c54a39.jpg\" title=\"People sit in a fishing boat sailing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off Yemen\u2019s southern Taiz province on Saturday. Photo: AFP\"\/>People sit in a fishing boat sailing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off Yemen\u2019s southern Taiz province on Saturday. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After attacking Iran for 13 days, the US apparently paused strikes on Friday night into Saturday with no explanation or announcement. Iranian media and the government also did not announce any incoming attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skirmishes between Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia intensified, as a pause in the nearly two-week run of nightly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[11215,38,102,379,34,3507,63929,1000,50],"class_list":["post-222782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-bab-el-mandeb-strait","tag-donald-trump","tag-hormuz","tag-houthis","tag-iran","tag-iran-attacks","tag-iran-pause","tag-red-sea","tag-saudi-arabia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116983187810975304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}