Ansarullah vows to break 11-year-long siege on Yemen, respond to any aggression

Hizam al-Assad, a senior member of Yemen’s Ansarallah political bureau, said on Saturday that Riyadh has been openly hostile to Yemeni people over the past decades and has sought to consolidate its position in the Arabian Peninsula at the expense of its southern neighbor.

“The aggression against Yemen was an American plot drawn up in Washington. Saudi Arabia implemented the scheme under US political, military and media patronage through a joint operations room,” Assad stated.

He added that former Yemeni presidents Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar were nothing more than Saudi mercenaries, who were employed for certain objectives. “Decisions were actually taken by the Americans,” he said.

The senior Ansarullah official further noted that Saudi Arabia has blocked flights to and from Sana’a International Airport ever since it enforced a blockade against Yemen, bombed women and children, destroyed civilian infrastructure, and caused the suffering of more than 40 million individuals in Yemen.

“Millions of Yemenis have occasionally poured onto the streets, and emphasized that the decision to break the siege is an irreversible one, regardless of Saudi Arabia’s attempts to obstruct it,” Assad said.

He stressed that Yemen’s sovereignty will be preserved by the Yemeni people themselves, while Saudi Arabia has given up its sovereignty to Americans and the Zionists.

“Our response to any aggression will be reciprocal. An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth,” he added.

The member of Ansarallah’s political bureau asserted that the air route between Sana’a and Tehran is part of efforts to break Yemen’s blockade, and will continue regardless of any consequences.

Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched the blockade on Yemen as part of a full-scale war on March 26, 2015, with military, political, and logistical support from the United States and other Western states.

The war has killed tens of thousands of Yemenis, while consistently falling short of its main objective of restoring power to Yemen’s former Riyadh-friendly regime.

The government had fled the country amid a power struggle, prompting Ansarullah, Yemen’s popular resistance movement, to start running state affairs.

Following a fragile UN-brokered ceasefire in 2022, the United States, Britain, and the Israeli regime waged many rounds of wholesale aggression against Yemen.

The attacks sought to cripple Sana’a’s capability to stage solidarity strikes against Israeli targets in response to Tel Aviv’s war of genocide on the Gaza Strip.