Mohammed Abdul-Salam, Yemeni popular Ansarullah movement’s Spokesman, said on Sunday that Lebanon, its people, and the resistance movement are capable of facing challenges, no matter what they are.
Faraan: Tensions have been running high between Beirut and Persian Gulf states over the Saudi war on Yemen, presstv reported.
In a post on his Twitter account, Abdul-Salam added that the Lebanese people were the ones who inflicted the first crushing defeat on the Israeli enemy.
True Arabs “are those who confront America and Israel, not those who join them as a tail, and target the nation under the pretext of Arabism”, he tweeted.
Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and regional allies, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing the popular Ansarullah movement, which had overthrown the previous Saudi-backed Yemeni government. The Saudi war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead, and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases.
In the meantime, Yemeni armed forces and the Popular Committees have grown steadily in strength against the Saudi invaders and left Riyadh and its allies bogged down in the country.
The Saudi-Lebanon row began after George Kordahi, who currently serves as Lebanon’s Information Minister, announced during a television program, which was aired last Monday, that the 2015-present Saudi Arabia-led war on Yemen was an act of aggression by Riyadh and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the kingdom’s most significant ally in the military campaign.
He called the war “absurd”, stating it had to stop because he was opposed to wars between Arabs. The minister also said the Yemeni army forces and their allied fighters from the Popular Committees were “defending themselves … against an external aggression”.
The Saudi kingdom subsequently recalled its ambassador from Beirut and expelled the Lebanese envoy from the Saudi capital.
