Yemeni Armed Forces Vow Striking Saudi Arabia’s Vital Installation If Aggression Continues

By Staff, Agencies

Member of Yemen's Supreme Political Council Mohammed Ali al-Houthi warned Saudi Arabia against its continued acts of aggression after Yemeni armed forces targeted a Saudi Aramco petroleum products distribution plant in the port city of Jeddah with an advanced homegrown ballistic missile.

“The more Saudi Arabia continues its war on Yemen, the stronger Yemeni army forces will target vital installations inside the kingdom in defense of their homeland and dignity,” Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network quoted al-Houthi as saying.

He added, “We have got accustomed to the unethical practices of the enemy, including its bombardment campaign, continuous attacks on Yemeni people, siege, air blockade, prevention of Yemeni patients from traveling abroad for medical care, deferments in payment of employee salaries and depreciation of the Yemeni currency… The more Yemeni people are targeted, the more resilient they will become.”

Al-Houthi said Saudi Arabia has been targeting and conspiring against Yemeni people for the past six years, noting that bids to normalize relations with the ‘Israeli’ regime, bombing of Yemeni people and the crippling siege on its impoverished southern neighbor are only a few examples in the Riyadh regime’s long list of crimes.

“Yemeni people will neither capitulate nor retreat in the face of [the Saudi-led] aggression. The only way for aggressor countries is to broker durable peace, otherwise the battle will continue until final victory,” he said.

He then underlined that the Quds-2 missile that hit the Saudi Aramco plant in Jeddah on Monday was entirely designed and manufactured in Yemen, sarcastically advising Saudi authorities to procure more advanced US-made air systems in light of the missile operation.

Relatively, the Ansarullah revolutionary movement’s spokesman, Mohammed Abdul-Salam, said on Thursday that “the Saudi regime tends to wail after every painful Yemeni response. This is necessary as it has significant deterrent effects.”

“As long as the aggression and siege continue, we [Yemeni forces] will not hesitate to confront them,” Abdul-Salam wrote in a tweet.

Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing the Ansarullah.

The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project [ACLED], a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 100,000 lives.

The Ansarullah, backed by armed forces, has been defending Yemen against the Saudi-led alliance, preventing the aggressors from fulfilling the objectives of the atrocious war.