Ansarullah Denounces Saudi Crown Prince’s Pledge to Continue Yemen War

Mohammed Abdelsalam, a senior spokesperson for the Ansaroallah, said Riyadh seeks to install another puppet regime in Yemen, which would do the biddings of Al Saud and the United States, Yemen News reported.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, who is known as the architect of the war on Yemen, told Reuters in a Thursday interview that the Riyadh is set to continue the military campaign, which is meant to crush the Ansaroallah and bring back the former Riyadh-allied government to power.

The Ansarullah official added that Riyadh is merely seeking to regain the dominance it has lost in Yemen, adding that bin Salman’s belligerent comments are a “disgrace” for the international community, which has failed to take any action to end the aggression.

During the interview, bin Salman drew a parallel between Yemen’s Ansarullah and Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, and announced that the war against Yemen is about preventing the Houthis from turning into another Hezbollah.

When asked, “Any change of heart on policy in Yemen?” he replied, “If we want to create another Hezbollah in the Middle East, then let’s change our policy in Yemen.”

Abdelsalam stressed that the Saudi crown prince’s Hezbollah comparison shows the kingdom has chosen to side with the occupying Israeli regime.

The Saudis are especially irked by Hezbollah’s key role in the fight against Takfiri terror groups in Syria, where they have long pursued a regime change. Those terrorists are inspired by Wahhabism, an extremist ideology exported by Saudi Arabia.

Ansaroallah movement, backed by the Yemeni army and popular forces, has been defending Yemen against the Saudi-led offensive, which consists of a bombing campaign, a blockade and the troop deployment to Yemeni soil.

Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen since March 2015 to restore power to fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 15,000 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.

Despite Riyadh’s claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

According to several reports, the Saudi-led air campaign against Yemen has drove the impoverished country towards humanitarian disaster, as Saudi Arabia’s deadly campaign prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country.

The cholera outbreak in Yemen which began in April, has also claimed over 2,100 lives and has infected 750,000, as the nation has been suffering from what the World Health Organization (WHO) describes as the “largest epidemic in the world” amid a non-stop bombing campaign led by Saudi Arabia. Also Riyadh’s deadly campaign prevented the patients from traveling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country.

According to reports, the cholera epidemic in Yemen, which is the subject of a Saudi Arabian war and total embargo, is the largest recorded in modern history.