Yemen declares readiness for direct military intervention unless US, Israel halt aggression

The Yemeni Armed Forces have warned that they are prepared for direct military intervention if American-Israeli aggression against Iran and the Axis of Resistance continues to escalate.

"We confirm that our hands are on the trigger for direct military intervention," spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said in a statement on Friday.

The statement came nearly a month into the launch of the United States' and the Israeli regime's latest bout of unprovoked aggression targeting the Islamic Republic, which has run in tandem with escalation of their attacks on regional resistance groups.

According to Saree, in addition to continuation of the escalation, other factors potentially prompting an intervention by the Yemeni servicemen would include other parties' participation in the ongoing aggression, and the use of the Red Sea to carry out hostile operations against the Islamic Republic or any other Muslim country. "We will not allow that," he asserted.

The official said the forces' position stems from “religious and moral responsibility” amid a broader campaign targeting not only the Islamic Republic, but also the Resistance Axis and the wider Muslim world.

The aggression is aimed at realization of the Israeli regime's so-called "Greater Israel" scheme, the official said, pointing to Tel Aviv's ambitions to expand the territories under its occupation to include wider areas across West Asia.

The statement described Yemen’s position as part of the “legitimate right” of regional peoples to confront the Zionist scheme and those trying to carry it out, namely Tel Aviv and Washington.

The servicemen, Saree added, are also motivated by the notion of continued cooperation among the regional countries in the face of such manipulative plots as well as their desire to inflict a "major defeat" upon the aggressors.

Over all, the Yemeni Armed Forces seek to act in line with Sana'a's principled alignment with the broader global Muslim nation, and, would, accordingly, confront any American-Israeli aggression targeting any single Muslim people.

The spokesman, meanwhile, issued a series of demands from the aggressors.

He called on them to respond to diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the aggression, describing the atrocities as "unjust, oppressive, and unjustified" attacks "that harms global and regional stability and security and harms the global economy."

The statement further demanded implementation of the ceasefire agreement between the Israeli regime and the Gaza Strip's Hamas resistance movement. The deal was signed last October in line with a plan devised by the US, which Washington claims is aimed at ending Tel Aviv's war of genocide on Gaza.

The statement also cautioned against any move to increase pressure on Yemen itself by tightening the blockade on the Arab Peninsula nation.

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