Yemen Vows ‘Crushing Response’ to Assassination of Top Ansarullah Official

Local Editor

Yemen's Defense Ministry vowed a "crushing response" to the assassination of the Chief of Yemen's Supreme Political Council Martyr Saleh al-Sammad, saying Saudi Arabia and the US will regret their "criminal adventurism".

In a statement carried by the official Saba news agency on Monday, the ministry stressed that the Yemeni armed forces reserve the right to deal severe blows to "the aggressors and their evil coalition," who will not be safe from ballistic missiles.

Al-Sammad was martyred in Saudi airstrikes that targeted him in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Thursday.

The council was formed by the Houthi movement and the General People's Congress Party to run state affairs in the absence of an effective government in 2016, a year after the Saudi regime and a coalition of its allies began their US-backed war against the country.

The statement further said the Saudi and Emirati aggressors and their allies, along with the US, passed all the red lines with their "criminal adventurism" in Yemen, without thinking about the consequences of their actions.

The aggressors imagine that resistance would stop with the assassination of Yemeni officials, but they would be taught a lesson with ballistic missiles, the statement added.

Meanwhile, Yemen's top governing body appointed Mehdi Mohammad Hussein al-Mashat as its new head.

Leader of the Ansarullah revolutionary movement Abdul-Malik Badreddine al-Houthi held the US and Saudi Arabia responsible for Sammad's assassination, saying, "This crime won't go unanswered."

Al-Sammad was number two on the Saudi-led coalition's most-wanted list and the alliance had offered $20 million for any information that would lead to his capture.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team