The leader of Yemen’s ruling Ansarallah resistance movement, Abdel Malik al-Houthi, said in a speech on 21 April that Yemen is “not neutral” and will resume military operations if the US-Zionist war on Iran resumes once the ceasefire expires.
“The current truce is about to end, and it is a fragile truce with a high possibility of escalation,” Houthi said, adding that Ansarallah’s position is “clear and declared, we are not neutral against the US-Israeli aggression that targets the [Arab and Muslim] nation and the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
“We are facing the ‘Israeli’ Zionist enemy and its US partner. Our direction is to escalate if the enemy escalates and returns to aggression again,” the Ansarallah leader went on to say, stressing that “the situation in the region will not stabilize until the Zionist plan is defeated.”
“Iran is not the problem, nor the Yemeni front, nor the Lebanese front, nor the weapons of Hezbollah. We must all be aware in the region that the Israeli and US enemies are the problem.”
The speech was delivered hours before the expiry of a two-week ceasefire between Washington and Tehran.
Tensions are high due to an ongoing US blockade of Iran’s ports, and the seizure of vessels in the high seas, said to be linked to the Islamic Republic.
The Ansarallah-led Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) entered the war in late March, weeks after the start of the US-Zionist war on Iran. The YAF carried out several operations targeting Israel, including some in cooperation with Hezbollah and Iranian forces.
After the genocide in Gaza began in 2023, the YAF was the only national army in the world to intervene to stop the Zionist regime’s mass killing of Palestinians.
The YAF enforced an unprecedented naval blockade on the Bab al-Mandab Strait and started targeting vessels associated with the Zionist regime, US, and British interests. These actions significantly impacted global shipping and the Israeli economy, despite EU and US naval deployments’ attempts to deter Sanaa.
Western officials described fighting against the YAF as “traumatizing,” and experts noted that these were the US Navy’s largest battles since World War II.
source: The Cradle