‘U.S. Actively Participating in Saudi War on Yemen’

SANAA (Press TV) – Yemen’s Ansarullah movement says the U.S. is not just arming the Saudi-led coalition, but is actively participating in its brutal war against the innocent Yemenis.

"The gravity of the American role doesn’t come from the arms sales, but the participation in the aggression against Yemen, and also in trying to legitimize that aggression,” said Mohammed al-Bukhtaiti, a senior member of the Political Bureau of the Ansarullah movement.

His comments come as American troops are coming back 16 years after they left Saudi Arabia, King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud announced last week. According to media reports hundreds of American troops are deploying to Prince Sultan Air Base outside Riyadh.

On Wednesday, Ansarullah spokesman Mohammed Abdul-Salam told Al-Masirah TV that the deployment of U.S. troops is aimed at providing security support and boosting the morale of Saudi Arabia against the ballistic missiles and drone attacks of Yemen.

In their latest retaliatory attack on Saudi targets, the Yemeni army’s UAVs once again hit a Saudi airport in Asir province on Thursday night. The army said the pinpoint attack on the airport and nearby military sites in the city of Abha was conducted by Qasef K-2 drones.

The Saudi-led coalition claimed the drone was intercepted and that no airports or military sites had been hit.

Yemeni forces have stepped up their retaliatory strikes against Saudi Arabia to force the regime to stop its military campaign against the Yemeni people.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed three congressional resolutions barring billions of dollars in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which have been committing war crimes in Yemen for over four years.

Referring to the decision, Ansarullah’s Bukhaiti said, "If the U.S. Congress manages to block the U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia, it will be the end for the economic benefits for America, and this may lead to a change in the U.S. policy regarding its participation in the aggression, and its efforts to legitimize it.”

In veto messages to Congress released by the White House, Trump argued that the bills would "weaken America’s global competitiveness and damage the important relationships we share with our allies and partners.”

Thousands of Yemenis, mostly civilians, have been killed by the Saudi aggression and the ensuing famine since 2015.

"The Yemeni people are subjected to an unjust and brutal aggression, and that has resulted in the deaths of thousands due to famine. And the U.S. has to reconsider because it’s a partner in this humanitarian crisis,” Bukhaiti said.

Yemen’s Message to UN for Only Durable Peace vis-a-vis Saudi Seditions

By: Kayhan Int’l 

Saudi Arabia is the main impediment for peace in Yemen, a country on which for almost the past four years Riyadh has imposed an uneven war that has destroyed the infrastructure of the Arab World’s poorest country and plunged it into famine and epidemic diseases. 

The Saudis, who on the orders of the US and the Zionist regime, have killed around 30,000 men, women, and children, have now tightened their illegal blockade of the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah in violation of the peace draft for immediate stopping of hostilities, by not just preventing merchant ships bringing vital food and medicine to the besieged nation, but targeting poor fishermen who venture into the open sea for their livelihood.

This latest provocative move comes hours after the special UN envoy, Britain’s Martin Griffiths, held talks in the Yemeni capital Sana’a with leaders of the popular Ansarallah Movement, as part of efforts to resolve the crisis. 

It is clear the Saudis fear the prospects of talks in Sweden next month among the various Yemeni groups since this might lead to restoration of peace and stability through democratic means in the Arabian Peninsula’s only republican country, thereby encouraging the suppressed masses groaning under the tyrannical rule of the Najdis to rise up for their own rights. 

Hopefully, Griffiths has realized that the villain of the piece is Saudi Arabia, and if he is really sincere in his peace efforts he should make it clear that any negotiations on Yemen will be among the Yemeni people without the presence of either the Saudis of the Emiratis – let alone their American masters. 

The UN ought to know that as long will as Ansarallah are branded as "Houthi rebels” and as long as Saudi Arabia, the UAE and their accomplices in the war on Yemen not considered aggressors and war criminals, peace is not possible in Yemen.

Riyadh and Abu Dhabi want a client regime in Yemen, coupled with total deprivation of the rights of over forty percent of the country’s Zaydi Shi’a Muslim population which forms the overwhelming majority in northern Yemen.

This is totally unacceptable. Fortunately, the Ansarallah, as defenders of the independence and integrity of Yemen, have seen through the devilish plot of the American stooges, who in an attempt to deprive the besieged Yemenis of even medicine and food, including the daily fish catch of the half-starved people, think they can dent the resistance of the heroic people of Hodeidah through such dastardly moves.

This warrants the Ansarallah, which as a goodwill gesture had ceased its missile attacks on Yemen’s Saudi occupied regions of Najran, Asir, and Jizan, to be on guard, because the cowardly enemy knows only the language of weapons, and Insha Allah (God Willing) will be defeated on the battlefield.

It is clear the defenders of Yemen are wary of the weakness of the UN as well, who is under intense pressure from Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Washington and Tel Aviv, to impose a humiliating peace which would be worse than the ongoing imposed war. 

Perhaps this was the reason, the chief negotiator of the legal government of Yemen, Mohammad Ali Al-Houthi, during his latest round of talks with Griffiths, made sure to place an AK-47 rifle under the table next to where he was sitting.

It is an established tradition among the Yemenis, whether ordinary people or officials, to always girdle themselves with the ubiquitous Jambiyya which is tucked on their waists, whether in peace or war. 

Thus, it was a shrewd move on the part of the Ansarallah to convey a message to all and everybody that those thinking that the Yemenis will be tricked into submission are living in a fool’s paradise.

The enemy media has failed to understand the clear visibility of a machinegun at an official meeting with the UN envoy, and is indulging in feverish propaganda to depict the Ansarallah as warmongering and opposed to peace, while the whole world knows them to be heroic defenders of their homeland against foreign aggression. 

The message, whether from Sana’a or from Hodeidah is loud and clear. There is no question of surrender for the resilient people of Yemen, who want a just peace that safeguards the integrity and independence of their nation, and if not the aggressors, should be ready for spectacular fireworks that will literally make the Red Sea turn crimson red.

Yemeni nation’s struggle for liberty main reason behind Saudi-led aggression: Houthi

The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has described the ongoing struggle of his fellow countrymen and women for liberty and dignity as the main reason behind the Riyadh regime’s devastating military aggression against their homeland, which has claimed the lives of thousands of people and left the country’s infrastructure in ruins.

“The Yemeni nation will never surrender, no matter how far the Saudi-led coalition would press its campaign of criminality and brutality. The problem of the Riyadh-based alliance with the Yemenis is rooted in the latter’s fight to live a free and dignified life,” Abdul-Malik al-Houthi addressed his supporters via a televised speech broadcast live from the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Thursday evening.

He added that the main responsibility of the Yemeni nation is to fight relentlessly against the enemies at every front.

Houthi then called on all freedom-loving people in Yemen to mobilize support for the battle in the country’s strategic western province of Hudaydah and along the border with Saudi Arabia. 

Elsewhere in his remarks, the Ansarullah leader expressed support for the Palestinians' resistance against the Israeli regime.

He also voiced solidarity with the Bahraini people, who have been facing the Aal-e Khalifah regime’s crackdown and repressive measures ever since a popular uprising swept the tiny Persian Gulf island State in mid-February 2011.

Some 15,000 Yemenis have been martyred and thousands more injured since the onset of the Saudi-led aggression.