We're hitting them very heavy tonight, as you know. We have tremendous amounts of ammunition. We have numbers that we haven't had in years.

We're hitting them very hard and it'll continue, and we'll see what happens.

We're knocking out all of their offensive capability and we're controlling the straits. We're putting the blockade back.

The blockade is probably more effective than hitting them. But I think the combination is the thing that really does it.

We knocked out most of their missiles, most of their drones.

We knocked out their drone manufacturing capability: about 92%.

Their missile capability for manufacturing: we knocked out 89%.

They have a little capability, but they don't have any capability for us. This is almost a military skirmish.

I want to be reimbursed because we're protecting a very rich portion of the world.

We're spending money. And so what we've done is we are going to be reimbursed for protection. We are helping Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and others.

Four months ago, these people had a military that was very strong, by far the strongest, probably in the Middle East.

They were called the bully of the Middle East. Now they don't have a navy. They have 159 ships underwater. They had 230 airplanes, attack planes. They're all gone.

They had tremendous radar. It's all gone. They had tremendous anti-aircraft. It's all gone.

Sadly, their leadership is all gone. First- and second-tier leaders are all dead. Their third-tier leaders, whom we're dealing with more or less, some of them are already gone.

We have them in a position where they don't have any military. There's not a thing they can do about it.

All they have is fake news because they have the fake news and would rather see us lose the war than win the war, which is really treasonous in a certain way.

We're doing another very major attack tonight. They want to make a deal. We made a deal two days ago, and they want to make a deal.

They've been negotiating for 47 years, but nobody's ever hit them militarily. We're hitting them very hard.

Soleimani was looking to take out a lot of our military installations in Iraq and Iran.

I got him before he got us.

They sent missiles to five different countries that never even knew they were involved.

Because they are stone-cold crazy. They are crazy.

They made a deal. They broke it probably 10 times.

After diplomatic contacts between Saudi and U.S. officials, MBS spoke with Trump on Friday and requested backing for military action against the Houthis, which Trump granted.

The confrontation began after a Mahan Air aircraft landed in Sana'a and transported a Houthi delegation to the funeral of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei — the first such Iranian flights to the city in more than a decade.

Saudi Arabia subsequently blocked further flights, with a U.S. official describing Mahan Air as "the IRGC airline."

When another Iranian aircraft approached Sana'a on Monday, Saudi forces struck the airport, forcing the plane to divert to Al Hudaydah. A U.S. official claimed it was carrying weapons, missile parts, and military experts for the Houthis.

The Houthis later retaliated with missiles and drones targeting Saudi Arabia.