TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Sunday threatened a “decisive” response to any attack after US President Donald Trump ordered a wave of airstrikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels and warned Tehran to stop backing the group.

On Saturday, Trump said the United States had launched “decisive and powerful military action” to end the Houthi threat to Red Sea shipping and warned that Iran’s support for the rebels “must end immediately.” A Houthi health official said the strikes had killed 31 people.

Iranian Guards chief Hossein Salami denounced Trump’s threats in a televised speech on Sunday, adding that “Iran will not wage war, but if anyone threatens, it will give appropriate, decisive and conclusive responses.”

The commander called the Houthis “the representative of the Yemenis,” adding the group made its “strategic and operational decisions” independently.

In January 2020, during Trump’s first term, the US killed the commander of the Guards’ foreign........

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