Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - Monitoring: According to the report of the Fars News Agency, the English publication "Times" reported that the British army was preparing a provocative plan to launch a wave of airstrikes against the positions of the Yemeni forces in the Red Sea, which raises the prospect of a significant escalation of tensions in the region. .
According to the Times, based on this program, the British forces have joined the American forces and possibly the forces of another European country to carry out missile attacks against pre-planned targets belonging to the Yemeni armed forces in the sea or inside Yemen itself.
A British government source said that London will use its air force fighters for the first time or the HMS Diamond warship to carry out these coordinated attacks.
The Times also wrote that the United Kingdom and the United States are expected to publish an unprecedented statement in a few hours, warning the Yemeni army: "Either stop attacks on commercial ships or face Western military might."
Earlier, the Central Command of the US Army in West Asia announced the clash between the helicopters of the US Navy and boats belonging to Yemen in the South of the Red Sea.
The Central Command of the US Army in West Asia, known as CENTCOM, reacted to the incident near Yemen's Hodeidah port by publishing a statement and announced that boats belonging to the "Yemen Houthis" attacked a container ship and helicopters of the US Navy in the south of the Red Sea.
In this statement, Centcom said that a container ship belonging to "Maersk" shipping company made two emergency calls that it was attacked by 4 boats belonging to the Yemeni Houthis.
It is stated in this statement; the crew of the boats shot at the Maersk ship with light weapons and advanced to a distance of 20 meters and were planning to enter the ship's deck.
After these emergency calls, American helicopters responded to the call and started shooting at them.
Centcom claims that US Navy helicopters responded to the fire of the boats in self-defense and sank three of the four small boats and the crews of the boats were also killed.
Centcom has also claimed that there was no damage to the American equipment and crew./Fars news