A spokesman for the Yemeni Ansarullah movement stressed in a speech: “If the ceasefire is not extended and the aggressors continue to aggress and besiege Yemen, we will target their strategic goals.”
Pak Sahafat News Agency, International Group – The Yemeni Minister of Defense recently reaffirmed after the ceasefire that the country’s armed forces adhere to the ceasefire, despite the continuing violation of the ceasefire by the aggressor militias. He stressed that we are committed to a ceasefire because we trust our leaders.
The fact is that if Saudi Arabia had acted honestly, the Sanaa International Airport should have been opened for patients to travel and ships full of oil derivatives should not have been prevented from reaching the port of Hodeidah.
The Yemeni people should be aware of the facts of what is happening in the occupied provinces by the aggressor coalition, in which there is a clear conspiracy and agreement to surrender Yemen to the Zionist regime and other Western governments.
The free people of Yemen inside and outside the country will condemn this conspiracy and they will not surrender to the oppressors and the arrogant, so their victory will be certain.
In this regard, “Wardeh Saad”, a correspondent of Mehr News Agency, had an interview with “Mohammad Abdul Salam”, the official spokesman of Ansarullah, the text of which is as follows:
Q: About eight years after the Saudi-American war against Yemen, why do you think the Saudi regime agreed to a ceasefire at this particular time? And why did they not agree to a ceasefire in the past?
We believe that the military and humanitarian ceasefire declared by the United Nations before the holy month of Ramadan was approved by the other side for a number of reasons. But what I want to point out is that we have already proposed such a ceasefire on every occasion or occasion, but it was opposed by the other side.
There is no doubt that after eight years of invading Yemen, this war failed and the other side knew that the military option could not achieve any of the stated goals. On this basis, they agreed to a ceasefire for several reasons. Perhaps they are trying to reconsider the options available to them after the ceasefire, or to bring the war into other phases, such as the economic, Strategic and social phases.
But what we are emphasizing is that a humanitarian ceasefire was our demand from the beginning of the aggression, which the other side rejected. We came up with many designs and ideas based on humanitarian solutions that could be solved; The evacuation of the wounded and sick from the war zones, the return of the Yemenis wandering behind the borders, the issuance of licenses for the import of food, health and petroleum products were all among the proposals we made, but the Saudi criminal coalition opposed them. This was not an equal military war, but unfortunately this is the temperament and behavior of the aggression coalition, and we should not expect anything else from them.
Q: How do you assess the goals of the Saudi regime in agreeing to the ceasefire, and in what way are they trying to take advantage of this ceasefire?
We believe that the invasion of Yemen and the unjust and cruel siege of the Yemeni people, which was applied at various levels, did not achieve the results that the enemies intended, but nevertheless, I did not hope to end this cruel war and break the siege of Yemen on the other side.
We believe that the stability, steadfastness and vigilance of the Yemeni people in the face of the challenges and sieges and all the consequences imposed by the aggression coalition was a strong rock that brought to a standstill all the evil desires of the enemies and their conspiratorial projects.
This is the result of the extraordinary vigilance of the Yemeni people because the national conscience of the Yemeni people opposes the aggression and rejects foreign intervention. Saudi Arabia and the UAE, followed by the United States, Britain and a number of other countries, invaded Yemen, they have imposed an unjust and cruel siege for no reason, but the Yemeni people have not blushed against all these pressures and are consciously continuing to stand.
We believe that the other side must come to the realization that it has lost this war. Accordingly, in order to stop the war, we must witness real movement and action by the aggressor countries, because our position has been and is a defensive position from the beginning of the aggression.
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Q: What will happen if the Saudi regime insists on maintaining a full or partial siege, and what is Yemen’s position on this challenge?
Our position on this siege has already been announced. The leader of the Ansarullah movement and the head of the Supreme Political Council have repeatedly made this position public. We emphasize that the aggression, the war and the oppressive siege must end first, and that the foreign troops must leave the territory of Yemen, and then the Yemeni people must be allowed to resolve their problems in a calm and stable manner through dialogue between the Yemeni currents.
We do not deny that there was a specific problem in Yemen in the past, and the United Nations held talks to find a solution to this problem, but Saudi Arabia and its allies did not intervene in this aggression to solve the problem of the Yemenis. They used this problem to achieve their goals and try to change the situation in Yemen. Their goal was for Yemen, under the rule of an arrogant regime, to violate its sovereignty while carrying out foreign orders and not to preserve its national identity, cultural values, faith and position in the Islamic world.
That is why we believe that the basic premise is that if the siege continues like this, this war will continue, and siege are two inseparable issues. More or less siege is not acceptable. No Yemeni citizen can accept that his rule is violated.
Q: How do you evaluate the results of the war so far from a strategic point of view, and can we face a stage of political conflict full of exchanging messages on the ground?
The 8-year-old all-out aggression against Yemen has failed, as every fair person in the world admits, and even the aggression coalition itself acknowledges this defeat. The removal of Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi and Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar is one of the consequences of their confession of defeat against the Yemeni people. The aggressors certainly have no choice but to fail, because the aggression against Yemen was from the beginning of a brutal and cruel attack, which will not achieve its goals with any military might.
No matter how long the siege continues, it will not produce the results on which the aggressor countries have based their goals. The goals they set will not be achieved at all as they imagine. They should learn from this eight-year experience and this event should be a lesson for them.
Q: Do you think that in the future we may see the bombing of the strategic goals of the Saudi regime again by Yemeni missiles and drones?
If the aggressor states do not adhere to the agreed humanitarian ceasefire, and if we and the United Nations and the international community do not reach a clear solution to end the aggression, lift the siege and expel the foreign forces, we will not be able to accept the aggression in any way.
So as soon as this ceasefire ends and we reach a solution other than extending it, which does not end the aggression and lift the siege, this will undoubtedly happen (heavy attacks on strategic targets in Saudi Arabia).
The Yemeni Armed Forces, with their missile and ballistic capabilities, are fully prepared to carry out all operations intended by the political leadership. They are ready to do their best to achieve strategic goals, including ending the aggression, lifting the siege, and expelling foreign forces.
We also emphasize that the aggressors did not adhere to the ceasefire. We will talk to the international community and we believe that the position of the United Nations has been negative and reckless so far, and if it continues like this, it is certainly not possible for the United Nations to succeed in this. The United Nations has not taken any position on the request of the other side to operate flights and also to allow ships to enter the port of Hodeidah.
Q: How will you deal with the plan to divide Yemen and try to reduce the forces of this country with other tools and tactics, and will your response include the Saudi regime and the UAE?
The aggression against Yemen has false and unrealistic reasons, but in fact, the goal is to keep Yemen weak and dependent. They want Yemen to be a low-level country in the Arab world that has ties to the Zionists, the Americans or any other party. They want Yemen to be deprived of all its national human, material and strategic capabilities and to become a weak and ineffective country.
It is a fact that the United States and the Zionist regime have common Strategic interests in continuing the aggression against Yemen; they do not want a strong Arab country like Yemen that has a strategic position and a clear supportive position to defend the Palestinian cause. Unfortunately, Saudi Arabia does not want to have a powerful country by its side, which is one of the serious problems of the Saudis in dealing with the issue of Yemen.
We also believe that the assumption that this aggression took place in the face of Yemen’s threats against other countries is not correct at all, that Yemen has never had any aggression against its neighbors, such as Saudi Arabia or Oman.
Saudi Arabia and the coalition formed through the convergence of interests with the Zionists, the United States and Britain, figured out this aggression, so all the addresses they provide are incorrect and irrational. The main problem of the aggressors against Yemen is that they want us to be dependent on Riyadh and Abu Dhabi and to obey them faithfully, they want us to consider the interests of others at the expense of the interests of the Yemeni people, and they want our president and officials from abroad.
This is what they want in a way that no national identity or identity can be realized, even in a country where millions of citizens aspire to full independence.