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Iran has rejected US and British calls to end its support for attacks by Houthi rebels on Israeli-linked vessels in the Red Sea and claimed the accusations were baseless interference as its navy dispatched a destroyer to the vital shipping lane.

The Alborz destroyer, operating as a military vessel of the 94th flotilla of the Iranian navy, crossed the Bab-el-Mandeb strait and entered the Red Sea on Monday.

It came as Ali Akbar Ahmadian, the secretary of Iran’s supreme national security council (SNSC), met Mohammed Abdulsalam, the Houthi spokesperson, praising the rebel fighters’ “brave actions” against “Zionist aggression”.

The UK and the US, possibly alongside another European country, are considering issuing a formal warning to the Houthis that they will strike military installations in Yemen along the Red Sea coast if the rebel fighters do not desist from their attacks on Israeli-linked commercial shipping.

The leader of the Yemeni Houthi militia, Abdulmalik al-Houthi, had already warned that his forces would target American battleships in the Red Sea, the Bab al-Mandab strait and the Gulf of Aden in the event of any attack against Yemen by Washington.

The Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson, Nasser Kanaani, said there was no reason to accuse Iran but added that Tehran stood squarely behind “Palestinian resistance movements”.

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