Senior Yemeni, Iranian officials meet in Muscat amid new Israeli threats

Mohammed Abdul-Salam, head of the Yemeni negotiating delegation and spokesman for Yemen's Ansarullah popular resistance movement, met Thursday with Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Majid Takht-Ravanchi in the Omani capital.

Abdul-Salam briefed the Iranian official on the latest developments in Yemen, emphasizing “national unity and solidarity among the Yemeni people.” He also expressed appreciation for Iran’s “political and moral support” for Yemen in the face of foreign aggression.

Takht-Ravanchi, for his part, praised the “honorable support of the resilient and oppressed people of Yemen for the people of Palestine,” describing Yemen’s resistance to Israeli attacks as “historic and dignified.”

The two sides also discussed recent political developments and ongoing consultations regarding the implementation of Yemen’s peace roadmap.

The meeting came as Zionist regime’s minister of military affairs Israel Katz warned that Tel Aviv had not “had the last word” against the Ansarullah of Yemen's Houthis, the movement that has targeted Israeli vessels in the Red Sea in solidarity with the Palestinians.

“The Houthis will pay a heavy price for their attempts to strike the Israeli home front over the past two years. We have not said the last word,” Katz said.

Mohammed al-Farrah, a member of Ansarullah’s political bureau, told Al Mayadeen that “we will not allow a criminal to threaten us.”

Al-Farrah went on to address Katz directly, saying: “For two years, you have committed crimes but failed to recover your captives from the besieged Gaza Strip, despite having the support of all American and Western intelligence agencies.”

"You have not achieved any of your military goals, and your weakness and contradictions are evident to global public opinion,” he added.

Since Zionist regime began its genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, Yemeni forces have launched numerous missile and drone operations targeting Israeli positions and commercial vessels linked to Israel in the Red Sea and beyond. The group said its actions were part of a campaign of solidarity with Palestinians and aimed at pressuring Israel to end its attacks on Gaza.

However, following a Gaza ceasefire that took effect on October 10, Yemen announced it had suspended its strikes, saying it would continue to monitor Zionist regime’s compliance with the truce and maintain readiness to resume operations if hostilities resumed.

“We will remain in full readiness to return to operations and to higher levels of escalation if the Zionist regime’s enemy resumes its aggression of mass extermination, blockade, annihilation, and starvation of the Palestinian people,” Yemen’s Ansarullah leader Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi said on October 21.