Publish dateSaturday 28 July 2018 - 03:31
Story Code : 167831
Houthis warn Saudi coalition not safe from Yemeni missiles
Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement - which has joined hands with the country's army against a Saudi-led alliance of adversaries - says capital cities of the coalition will be “no longer safe" from missiles fired in retaliation for attacks on Yemen. 
AVA- “The Yemeni army is not after bombarding (other countries), but cannot also sit back. From now on, the capitals of the Arab coalition members will be no longer safe,” Mohammed Abdelsalam, a senior spokesperson for the Houthis, told Qatar's pan-Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera on Thursday.  
He added, “We will not kill; we will not bombard, but will not also sit idly”.
The remarks came after the Yemeni army on Thursday evening launched an airstrike against Abu Dhabi International Airport, using a domestically-built long-endurance Sammad-3 (Invincible-3) unmanned aerial vehicle.
The Ansarullah official further rejected reports that Iran was providing military assistance to Yemen and said, “The Yemeni army has ballistic and naval missiles, and have developed them inside the country”.  
He added, however, that Ansarullah has no plans to cut off relations with the Islamic Republic.
Elsewhere in the interview, Abdelsalam stressed that doors to a political settlement to the Yemen crisis are not closed yet and that Ansarullah was ready to reach an agreement with other Yemeni groups, including Yemen's ex-president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, albeit without foreign intervention.
Saudi Arabia and some 20 of its allies, including the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Sudan, launched a brutal war, code-named Operation Decisive Storm, against Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemen’s former president and a staunch ally of Riyadh, and crush the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement.
The movement, which is a significant aid to the Yemeni army in defending the country against the invading forces, has been running state affairs in the absence of an effective administration during the past three years.
The imposed war initially consisted of a bombing campaign but was later coupled with a naval blockade and the deployment of ground forces into Yemen.
 
 
 
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