Yemen warns about US sabotage amid fledgling ceasefire; threatens strong response
A senior Yemeni official has issued a warning of potential sabotage on the part of the United States, no more than a couple of days following conclusion an Omani-mediated ceasefire agreement between the two sides.
Ali al-Dailami, a member of the Political Bureau of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement, made the remarks on Friday, emphasizing the need for heightened vigilance.
The two sides agreed to the ceasefire on Wednesday. Before that, the US had markedly intensified its deadly attacks against Yemen as a means of trying to force Sana’a into stopping its strikes against the Israeli regime, Washington’s most cherished regional ally.
The Yemeni official, meanwhile, expressed confidence in the country’s military preparedness and constant endeavor to improve its firepower amid the threat of the US’s violating the deal.
He noted that Yemen did not possess such missile systems as the US’s much-vaunted THAAD apparatus or the Israeli regime’s Iron Dome that has been developed with significant American contribution.
The Arab Peninsula nation was, however, steadily advancing its own defense capabilities, he asserted, still pointing to Sana’a’s efforts at staying ready in the face of Washington’s potential contravention of the agreement.
The comments came after a recent speech by Ansarullah’s leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, who had likewise warned of potential US efforts to escalate hostilities.
Al-Dailami declared that any renewed offensive by external forces would be met with a strong response from Yemen.
“We are warning against any suspicious efforts,” he said, and reminded the longstanding involvement of the US, the UK, and the Israeli regime’s in acts of deadly violence against his country.
As a case in point, he cited the US’s contributing to the 2015 wholesale war on Yemen by Saudi Arabia and its allies — throughout which Washington would provide the invading Saudi-led coalition with unstinting military and intelligence support.
Al-Dailami, meanwhile, issued an internal call to the Yemeni public to stay alert and avoid internal divisions, warning that the United States would attempt to exploit any weaknesses in Yemen’s domestic cohesion to further its geopolitical agenda.
Also on Friday, Mohammad al-Bukhaiti, another senior Ansarullah member, reiterated Sana’a’s assertion that Yemen’s ongoing operations against the Israeli regime in support of the Gaza Strip, would be exempt from the ceasefire deal.
