Ansarullah stresses independence of its decision to act against Israeli-American aggression

Yemeni resistance movement Ansarullah says its solidarity strikes in support of Iran and fellow regional resistance groups are motivated by its resolve to confront the Israeli scheme targeting the region, and not based on anyone’s request.

Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a member of the Supreme Political Council of the Yemeni popular resistance movement, made the remarks to CNN on Monday.

“Our stance is part of confronting the catastrophic Zionist plan, not based on anyone’s request,” he said, pointing to Tel Aviv’s so-called “Greater Israel” scheme that intends to expand the areas under the Israeli regime’s occupation across the West Asia region.

Sana’a announced its official entrance into the battlefield on March 28, a month into the launch of the United States’ and the Israeli regime’s latest bout of unprovoked aggression targeting the Islamic Republic and regional resistance groups, including those based in Lebanon and Iraq.

The war was launched following widely reported incitement by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who travelled to the US ahead of schedule in advance on a widely reported agenda to make sure Washington would join Tel Aviv in the aggression.

The Yemeni official said the problems facing the region were rooted in the Israeli and American actions that were aimed at implementing the Israeli plot to target all the peoples of the region.

Al-Houthi warned that the regime was “driving the world toward destruction” and was using the US to achieve its goals.

US advised to ‘abandon ‘Israel First’ approach’

He urged the United States to consider its own interests in the region and to abandon “the aggressive path dictated by Zionism,” adding that such a decision would benefit Washington itself, the entire world, and the region.

“My advice to America is to stop its hostile policies toward our nation, free itself from Zionist control, and abandon the ‘Israel First’ approach.”

‘Yemen to prevent military use of Red Sea against Muslim nations’

Referring to the scope of the Yemeni solidarity campaign, he stressed that the country aimed to prevent the military use of the Red Sea against any Muslim nation.

Yemen would remain committed to its ceasefire deal with the US “as long as the other party stops its aggression,” he added.

“There is no intention to target any Muslim country except to repel aggression against Yemen.”

The remarks came after Ansarullah said targeting vessels belonging to hostile parties and their allies in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait was an option.

Observers interpreted al-Houthi’s remarks as an indication of the potential resumption of Sana’a’s strikes against Israeli and American vessels and its likely pending targeting of ships belonging to the states that aid Tel Aviv and Washington in their ongoing atrocities.

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