Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark said on Newsmax Monday that President Donald Trump was “absolutely right” to hold Iran accountable for the Houthi attacks on container ships by ordering weekend airstrikes in Yemen.

Clark told “American Agenda” that Trump did the right thing because Iran has “been behind” the Houthi attacks on international shipping vessels “the whole time.”

“They’re the ones that have provided the technology, the warnings, all the munitions, and so forth from the start,” Clark said. “And they’ve used it as part of their axis of resistance against Israel and, obviously, against the United States. And they found a way of hurting people, really, by choking off the Red Sea for commerce. So it’s a tremendous violation of international law. It’s supported by Iran. Yes — go to the source.”

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