Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis has described Tehran’s major aerial attack on Israel as a “legitimate” response to a suspected Israeli bombing of an Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus earlier this month. “[Iran] will not be able to get away with its crimes unpunished,” the militia’s spokesman Mohammed Abdel-Salam said in a post on social media platform X, referring to Israel, Iran’s arch-foe. Houthi militants have been attacking ships in the Red Sea in what they say is retaliation for Israel’s devastating onslaught in the Gaza Strip. Because of the continuing Houthi attacks, major s…