After reports of attacks on Saudi Arabia’s tankers by Yemen’s Shiite Houthis in support of the Islamic Republic, several senior European officials expressed deep concern about these actions.

Germany’s defense minister, on Thursday, 1 Mordad 1405, announced the German government’s severe concern over the Houthis’ attack on two oil tankers in the Red Sea and pointed to the risk of the conflict escalating in the region.

According to “Boris Pistorius,” the situation in the Middle East is “clearly moving in the wrong direction.”