SANA’A (Dispatchers) – A member of the political bureau of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has warned the United Arab Emirates that the resistance movement will respond with missiles and drones if the Saudi-led aggression on Yemen is not halted.
Abdullah Muhammad al-Naimi said in a tweet on Friday that “the UAE thinks it is playing smart by handing over some of the Yemeni provinces and islands it occupies to the Israeli, British and American forces, but it should know that the answer to that will be ballistic missiles and drone attacks.”
He said the UAE is bullying the Yemeni people and is treating them as if these people are a backward nation, warning the UAE that it should reconsider its calculations and its role in Yemen.
“Now that we have ballistic missiles and drones, we will force this small country (the UAE) to come to its senses and repent before the world [for participating in the attack on Yemen],” al-Naimi added.
Pointing to the expired truce between the warring sides, he said that “during the ceasefire, the forces of Ansarullah have been able to make special progress in the field of building military equipment, and that the Saudi-led coalition will regret it if it wants to continue to besiege and kill the people of Yemen.”
A day earlier, a member of Ansarullah warned the United States against its continued support for the devastating Saudi onslaught and all-out blockade against the country, saying that Washington’s strategic interests in the region would be the “legitimate targets” of retaliatory strikes by Yemeni armed forces if American statesmen do not abandon the policy.
President Joe Biden’s administration pulled the plug on Senator Bernie Sanders’ bill to stop unconstitutional U.S. participation in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, which the U.S. Senate was expected to vote on this week, Abd al-Wahhab al-Mahbashi said in a statement on Thursday.
He added that Biden presented himself as a dove of peace during his presidential campaign, and even pledged a halt to U.S. support for the Saudi war in Yemen, but it is now fairly clear that the 80-year-old American politician wants to continue the aggression and is complicit in the Riyadh regime’s crimes against the Yemeni nation.
Mahbashi emphasized that the Biden administration is deceiving the U.S. public opinion as well as the international community, and obstructs any initiative aimed at cessation of the Saudi war.
Saudi Arabia launched the devastating war on Yemen in March 2015 in collaboration with its Arab allies and with arms and logistics support from the U.S. and other Western states.
The objective was to reinstall the Riyadh-friendly regime of Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and crush the Ansarullah resistance movement, which has been running state affairs in the absence of a functional government in Yemen.
While the Saudi-led coalition has failed to meet any of its objectives, the war has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis and spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.