Yemen Weapons, West Coast Battles and Saudi Arabia

Ah, in the name of God, the Merciful. This is one of the armored vehicles seized by the Yemeni Army on the western coast, and it is now in Dhamar Governorate.

On this occasion, we will reveal a secret for the first time since the start of the aggression up to now.

The Saudi enemy and its mercenaries are always, ah, accusing Yemen of getting its weapons from Iran, and there is nothing wrong with that.

But after Yemen was blockaded, we were unable to obtain enough weapons from abroad, from any country whatsoever.

So, our armament was actually— and this is what we reveal today— from the stockpiles of the Saudi Army and its mercenaries in the— in Yemen, ah, because Yemen was under siege.

The Yemeni Army's weapons, then, come either from the Saudi Army's stockpiles or from the stockpiles of their mercenaries, or from what, ah, the people of Yemen manufacture, ah, including missiles and drones.

Ah, that's the first point. Also, ah, we must comment on the new Saudi accusations.

Now the Saudi media is devoting its eff— efforts to asking the question: Why does Yemen stop Saudi ships but not Israeli and American ships?

We ask the same question, and say: Why, for 12 years, has Saudi Arabia prevented Yemeni ships from entering and—why hasn't it stopped American and Israeli ships?

That is the question we should be asking, because even if Saudi Arabia lifts its blockade of Yemen, we will lift our blockade of Saudi Arabia.

So they are the reason. Along those lines, we ask the more important question: Why did Saudi Arabia form a broad international coalition to wage war on Yemen but form no Arab or Islamic coalition to save our brothers in Gaza when they were facing genocidal crimes,

uh, and the blockade, uh, in Gaza? Yemen did its duty at that time.

Why didn't Saudi Arabia do its duty? On the contrary, they stood alongside the Zionist entity, while we did our duty until the genocidal crimes were stopped in Gaza and its blockade was lifted.

If the Zionist entity returns, we will return too, even though we're busy confronting the Saudi enemy.

Also, uh, we must send a message as well to the Saudi leadership because, uh, the day before yesterday, uh, Netanyahu went to, uh, Abu Dhabi and met with several Arab officials, including Saudi officials, uh, to restore the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the UAE,

uh, to form an alliance to protect Saudi Arabia.

We advise the Saudi leadership. We tell them: Neither the Zionist entity will help them even with all its might, nor will America or Britain.

They have already failed to confront, uh, Yemen uh, in a direct war, and those countries failed to lift the blockade on the Zionist entity, so they won't protect Saudi Arabia.

Then we ask, we ask the Saudi enemy and the Saudi leadership, those fools, we say, I mean, just days ago, they were accusing Yemen of targeting Mecca.

Well, why did Netanyahu come and gather these Arabs and the Arabs to protect Mecca?

We in Yemen, as a government and a people, are the most committed nation to protecting what? The Islamic holy sites.

We must also clarify some, some facts about the nature of the battle on the western coast.

Now, some people are trying to portray the reason for that defeat as the cowardice of the fighters under Tariq Afash, and we say it's false, because the first to flee were the Giants Brigades and Homeland Shield.

That’s first. Second, the Saudi officers were the ones who led all the military operations, and there were fierce battles fought by the Yemeni army against the mercenaries, of course, but in the end, those mercenaries had no just cause,

so they couldn’t stand firm against the resolve of the Yemeni fighters who have a just cause and suffer a great injustice, the injustice suffered by the Yemeni people as well as by the people of Gaza, which is worse than the injustice Yemenis have faced.

Wow, and so the— even the Saudi officers fled in a hurry.

They and Tariq Afash. By the way, Tariq Afash had no other option for where to flee, and given a choice, he'd have fled to no other country but—but Saudi Arabia or the UAE.

Now look at his situation, how he's doing.

His family is being held in Abu Dhabi, and today he's being held in Riyadh, and now they're holding him accountable and trying to make him take responsibility.

We say it's true that after fierce battles, the mercenaries fled, led by, uh, the Giants Brigades and the Homeland Shield forces, and some of them were forces from the so-called Republican Guards, but the Saudi officers and soldiers fled first.

But when this Yemeni fighter reaches a dead end, he doesn't fight.

They don't— the Saudis weren't walking into a dead end— they flee. Under fire, the Yemeni fighter flies straight into a dead end.

Fine, he was killed—killed by gunfire first, right or not?

But they were killed by fear and terror.

So, we don't say the Yemeni mercenaries lack courage, No, but they have no cause.

So from here, we extend an invitation to all those mercenaries and those who have been misled.

We tell them: Today, the Saudi enemy and the mercenaries— I mean, what do the mercenary leaders say?

They say, “If these Ansar Allah manage, if the Sanaa government manages to extend its authority over Yemen…

that will threaten the existence of the Saudi regime.

It will threaten the world, America and Britain.

Well, accusations like these are actually a testament to us, because Yemen has long complained about foreign interventions, right or not?

I mean, uh, all the presidents who have ruled Yemen from the 1962 revolution until now, what have they complained about?

Saudi interventions. They even considered them a necessary evil, and Yemen had to adapt to this reality.

Eritrea occupied three of our islands, islands, and the Yemeni army did not act.

Also, uh, American, British, and Israeli naval forces took control of the waters surrounding Yemen.

Instead of the Bab al- Mandab Strait being a weapon in Yemen's hands, it became a weapon in whose hands? Its enemies'.

Who imposed a blockade on us? And the American ambassador became Yemen's de facto ruler.

But after the 2014 revolution, everything changed.

And today they complain. What are they complaining about?

What are they trying to do? Scare the world into thinking that Yemen has so much influence that it threatens the world.

Well, that's testimony, right or not? And we affirm that Yemen poses no threat to any Arab or Islamic state. We support, and our support for Palestine proves that.

Also, our aim is not, uh, to threaten maritime navigation, but to protect it, because those threatening maritime navigation are Saudi Arabia and its American allies, They are the ones preventing maritime traffic to and from Yemen by force of arms,

They threaten maritime traffic. And even when we impose restrictions, we impose a blockade on Saudi Arabia And to break the blockade on Yemen.

And when we also imposed a blockade on the Zionist entity, And what for?

To break the blockade on Gaza and the port of Gaza.

So our military operations do not threaten maritime navigation, Rather, they protect it, as for mar— maritime navigation And freedom of maritime navigation is a sacred right for all peoples, Uh, and the me—