Alwaght- A senior Ansarullah official has rejected allegations that Iran is providing arms to Yemeni forces confronting the Saudi-led military aggression against Yemen, saying Yemeni army soldiers and fighters from allied Popular Committees would have conquered Riyadh if Iran had been able to provide military aid.
“If we had [had] the alleged Iranian support, we would have been in Riyadh today, even if we had [had] the alleged Iranian technology, we would have targeted them from the first day,” Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, The President of the Ansarullah Supreme Revolutionary Committee said in n an exclusive interview with France 24 TV.
“We will continue to target (Saudi Arabian Oil Company) Aramco and vital Saudi facilities to have a deterrent power against the arrogant enemy,” al-Houthi added.
The senior Yemeni official further called Britain, European countries as well as the US to stop their support for Saudi Arabia in its bloody aggression against Yemen.
Saudi-led coalition has launched a brural aggression against Yemen since March 2015 under in a bid to restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.
Tens of thousands of Yemenis have been killed in Saudi-led strikes, with the vast majority of them being civilians.
The Saudi-led coalition – which includes UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan and Kuwait – has been also imposing a blockade on the impoverished country’s ports and airports as a part of the aggression.
Houthi further noted that Yemeni soldiers and their allies were currently deployed to areas in close proximity to Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border regions of Najran, Jizan and Asir, emphasizing that the Ansarullah movement was formulating a long-term attrition policy against the House of Saud regime.
The senior Ansarullah official stated that all options were on the table to counter the Saudi-led aggression against his impoverished and conflict-plagued country.
“We will use all available means; and a vast array of options is at our disposal to respond to the attacks. It’s a shame to condemn Yemeni retaliatory missile attacks at the same time as keeping mum on crimes being perpetrated by the Saudi-led aggressors. If the enemy continues to pound our cities and our siege remains in place, we will certainly demonstrate greater military power,” Houthi highlighted.
He said, “We are developing and manufacturing our own missiles on the basis of Russian and North Korean technologies. The projectiles have no Iranian know-how incorporated in.”
Iran has repeatedly denied allegations of delivering missiles to the Ansarullah movement in Yemen. Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has stressed that the accusations are aimed at diverting attention from Saudi war crimes in Yemen.
