Defense Minister: The next stage will be “naval” and we have “disciplinary” options

Sana’a revealed the most prominent features of the next stage in the event that the coalition of aggression and its sponsors insisted on continuing intransigence towards the requirements and entitlements of actual peace. It confirmed that the priority would be to protect Yemeni territorial waters and impose full sovereignty over them, in a new warning message that comes days after the leader of the revolution confirmed the impossibility of bargaining about legitimate rights, noting the readiness to go towards a greater escalation to respond to the enemy’s intransigence.

The Minister of Defense, Major General Mohammed Nasser Al-Atifi, said in statements published by the ministry’s “September Net” website: “The country’s maritime security will be a priority in the next stage,” which means that the aggression coalition and its sponsors’ insistence on continuing intransigence and the continuation of the siege and occupation of the country will trigger a massive maritime confrontation.”

Al-Atifi added that Yemeni sovereignty over the Bab al-Mandab Strait, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the territorial extension of the Socotra Archipelago and the Yemeni islands cannot be waived.

The head of the Military Intelligence Authority, Major General Abdullah Yahya al-Hakim, had confirmed earlier that the armed forces are ready to engage in a naval confrontation that “will be one of the fiercest battles since the start of the aggression” in the event that the aggression coalition and its sponsors refuse to move towards actual peace.

“The armed forces have taken all appropriate measures to ensure that they deal forcefully and firmly with any development that poses any a threat to maritime sovereignty,” Minister of Defense said.

The Deputy Prime Minister for Defense and Security Affairs, Lieutenant General Jalal Al-Ruwaishan, has recently confirmed that Sana’a is moving towards imposing sovereignty over all Yemeni territorial waters and islands, and protecting international shipping lines from violations of the forces of aggression.

A few days ago, Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein Al-Ezzi called on the Emirati occupation to start leaving Socotra Island as soon as possible.

Major General Al-Atifi stressed that “the armed forces and all their affiliates are concerned with following all the operations to discipline those who plunders or tampers with the rights of the steadfast Yemeni people,” adding “there are disciplinary options that will be taken and announced at the appropriate time.”

He said that there is no blame on Sana’a if it resorted to deterrence options, “because it provided all means to reach a positive end, but the enemy refuses to do so.”

The leader of the revolution, Sayyed Abd al-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, confirmed in his last speech that no progress had been made in the course of renewing the truce. Because of the insistence of the United States of America to push Sana’a towards surrender under the pretext of “peace” and its adherence to the continuation of the blockade, the plundering of national wealth, and keeping the country under tutelage, explaining that this is “unacceptable”.

The leader stressed that negotiating on basics rights of the Yemeni people is impossible, and that the coalition of aggression is concerned with modifying its intransigent behavior, warning that Sana’a will move to a broader and more effective escalation to respond to any aggressive steps at the military or economic level.

The Minister of Defense said: “What is happening today in terms of hostile, conspiratorial and subversive actions and the suffocating and unjust siege is a sure testimony that this aggression does not want to establish any form of peace and truce, and does not have any real willingness to think positively about stability and peace in the region and respect the will of the Yemeni people.”

He explained that the enemy “seeks to turn its direct war into an internal conflict by creating problems, fabricating them and provoking them, whether in the free or occupied governorates. The aim of these action is to fragment Yemen socially, and tearing the Yemeni identity,” noting that the Saudi-led aggression still “tampers with the file of prisoners and its purchases of more offensive weapons and defense aerial systems, and the establishment of occupation military bases on the Yemeni islands, and the plundering of Yemen’s oil wealth.”

Major General Al-Atifi stressed that Sana’a will not accept any bargaining or tampering with regard to the entitlements of the Yemeni people and the humanitarian file.

The Minister of Defense added that the armed forces “monitor with precision and with military professionalism all the methods used in creating this suffocating siege,” stressing that “if they persist on imposing such siege on the country, the armed forces will have the right to choose the appropriate response.”

These assurances and warnings come in the context of a number of important messages sent by Sana’a and its revolutionary and political leadership to the countries of aggression during the past days, and these messages carried clear signals that there is no longer much time for the aggression coalition and its sponsors, and that current condition may soon end with a major escalation that the United States will bear the responsibility for, along with Saudi Arabia and the UAE, who chose to submit to Washington’s aggressive tendencies.