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The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah revolutionaries Sayyed Abdul Malik Badreddine al-Houthi warned that the US military is preparing the ground for an act of aggression against the war-torn Arab country.
In a televised speech on Thursday, Sayyed al-Houthi slammed Washington’s recent missile attacks against three mobile radar sites on Yemen’s Red Sea coast, saying the nation and armed forces should stay vigilant and stand fully ready to face the invaders.
"The US is after laying the groundwork for making an invasive move against [western coastal] Hudaydah Province," the statement said, adding, "Through this measure, the US is after building up pressure on and harassing the people of Yemen."
"The Yemeni nation will defend its territory, freedom and independence, seeing it as its right to use any legitimate means against violent invasions," the Houthi leader said.
He made the comments on the anniversary of the October 14, 1963 onset of an arms struggle, which forced the British into withdrawal from southern Yemen.
The remarks came after the Pentagon said that three Yemeni radar sites across the country’s Red Sea coast had been destroyed by US cruise missile strikes.
The Pentagon earlier claimed that the USS Mason, a guided-missile destroyer, had come under the Yemeni attack for the second time in four days.
Ansarullah dismissed the "unfounded" accusations as an attempt to a pretext for providing more intelligence and logistics support to Saudi Arabia in its military campaign, which has so far killed more than 10,000 people in Yemen.
The movement also "expressed readiness to work with any United Nations or international [body] to investigate these allegations and to punish those behind this, regardless who they may be," the Saba Net news agency reported.
Also on Thursday, Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman, spokesman for the Yemeni forces, denounced the US missile strikes as unacceptable and stressed that Sana’a reserves the right to defend itself in the face of such threats.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
