The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia weighed plans for closer cooperation between the two Muslim states and discussed the pressing regional issues, including the Israeli atrocities against Palestine and the developments in the Red Sea.

The spokesman of the Yemeni armed forces said on Thursday morning that the country's navy attacked an American ship in the Gulf of Aden with a number of missiles and accurately hit it.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei on Tuesday hailed Yemen’s Armed Forces’ operation in the Red Sea against the Israeli-linked merchant vessels in support of the Gaza Strip which has been under relentless bombardment for 100 days.