MUSCAT (Debriefer)--Spokesperson for the Houthi Group, Mohammed Abdulsalam, on Wednesday said the Americans and the Saudi and UAE regimes launched their war on Yemen because they knew that Yemen was heading towards its independence.
In a statement to the Nabaa TV, he said: "The Americans realised they would not be able to control the leadership and ride the waves of the 21st September revolution. Then the war on Yemen was a US option".
"In response, we chose to consolidate our revolution with blood and today it is stronger".
The group ousted the government of internationally recognised president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi and seized the capital Sanaa on 21st September 2014. It has since been controlling the northern regions and large swaths of the west and northeast, where the majority of the country's population lives.
It is talking about its takeover as a revolutionary event that has made a new history in Yemen which used to be dependent on the US and Saudi regimes.
At the beginning of the aggression, Yemen was not capable of determining the coordinates of a specific position and producing a single drone or missile, he said. "But our people absorbed the shock of the aggression and today they have the rocket, air and drone forces that have a lot of capabilities".
Before the 21st September revolution, there were 1.120 marines at the US embassy in Sanaa who had a special ward at Sanaa airport and controlled the Al-Anad military base in south Yemen, he said.
If the revolution had not happened, the Americans would have made Yemen normalise relations with Israel, he said.
"For us, Palestine has always been targeted by the regimes normalising with Israel. The Palestinian resistance was chained a long time ago and now the US decided to make countries normalise with the Jewish state officially," he said.
Israel has been involved in the aggression on Yemen since the first day, he said, pointing out that they got a message through contacts that prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu considered one of the missiles that targeted the Saudi city of Yanbu as a strategic danger to Israel.
Abdulsalam accused Saudi Arabia and the UAE of fighting on behalf of Israel.
After the Houthi takeover, a Saudi-led coalition launched a military intervention in support of the UN-backed government. The conflict has created what the UN says is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.
