Emphasizing that Yemen’s legitimacy stems from its power and resistance, the member of the Yemeni Supreme Political Council stressed that the United States must stop extorting money by keeping the Yemeni people hungry and aggressive and to lift the siege against them.
A member of the Yemeni Supreme Political Council also reacted to remarks by the US special envoy to Yemen that Washington had accepted the legitimacy of the Houthi movement.
“Yemen won with its power and resistance, and gained its legitimacy and independence,” said Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, according to Al-Mayadin.
He added: “The international community must deal with Yemen in a fair way, away from dictating something by force and extortion, by keeping its people hungry.”
Al-Houthi said that the aggression and siege against Yemen and the interference in the political, social, and economic affairs of Yemen must stop.
The US envoy to Yemen, Tim Landerking, said on Thursday that the United States recognized the Ansar al-Islam movement as a legitimate party in Yemen and as a group that had made progress.
Abdul Wahab al-Mahbashi, a member of the political bureau of the Yemeni Ansarullah movement, told Al-Mayadin that the US envoy to Yemen acknowledging Ansarullah’s legitimacy was an implicit acknowledgment that the US was behind the war against Yemen.
He stressed: “The achievements on the ground forced the United States to recognize Ansarullah as a legal party in Yemen.”
