The Chief of Staff of the Yemeni Armed Forces and Commander of the Joint Forces, Lieutenant General Sagheer bin Aziz, vowed to resolve the battle with the Houthis soon with the support of the Coalition to Support Legitimacy, explaining that there is a serious intention to resolve the battle with the Houthi coup militia and that the Yemeni people will soon hear about good results and great victories.

At a joint press conference with Yemeni Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Muammar Al-Iryani in Marib today (Monday), Sagheer Aziz praised the role of the Saudi-led coalition in working to restore stability to Yemen, commending Saudi and Emirati support.

The Chief of Staff accused Iran of supporting the Houthi militia, stressing that the Houthi militia understands only the language of weapons and will not submit to peace except by force. He explained that the national army was built on national and legal foundations and is responsible for protecting the Yemeni people and defending them, including the Houthis, if they submit to peace and give up weapons.

He added: “We in the National Army are defending our authentic Yemeni identity, the Arab identity, and humanity as a whole. The war is not against the Houthis as Yemenis, but against the Persians. It is a Persian-Arab war, as Iran has put all its weight into this war.” He pointed out that the terrorist Houthi militia is fighting everything beautiful in Yemen and practicing terrorism that is unsurpassed. They have booby-trapped the land and sea with millions of mines and the air with booby-trapped drones. They have booby-trapped the minds of young people, and there is a coming generation booby-trapped that knows nothing but the culture of death, killing, and destruction.

The Yemeni Minister of Information addressed the dangers of the Houthi militia and its role in thwarting peace efforts, most recently the Saudi initiative, which was met with escalation by the militia, indicating that the Houthis are no different from the terrorist organizations Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

Al-Eryani said: “Since their coup, the Houthi militia has carried out the most extensive landmine planting operations since World War II, resulting in the deaths and injuries of more than 7,000 civilians, the majority of whom are women and children. This constitutes one of the most serious crimes against humanity and war crimes committed against the present and future of Yemenis.” He added: “The excessive use of landmines and improvised explosive devices, and their indiscriminate planting among citizens’ homes, schools, mosques, markets, grazing and agricultural areas, water sources, and roads, poses a persistent threat to the lives of millions of civilians, paralyzes public life, disrupts people’s interests, and exacerbates their humanitarian suffering.” The Yemeni Minister of Information accused the Houthi militia of turning Sana’a Airport and Hodeidah ports into factories for assembling ballistic missiles and drones, preparing remotely piloted explosive boats, and planning and executing terrorist activities that threaten the security and safety of international shipping lanes in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab. Al-Iryani condemned the Houthi militia's threats to the lives of four journalists who have been forcibly disappeared in its prisons since June 2015. During their detention, they have been subjected to various forms of psychological and physical torture, denied visits, medical care, and other basic rights, and sentenced to death on fabricated charges, in flagrant violation of international law. He called on the international community to pressure the Houthi terrorist militia to immediately and unconditionally release the journalists, who are facing imminent death. He also noted that the militia continues to obstruct all agreements and efforts aimed at containing the disaster, including the agreement to allow a UN team to assess the technical condition and maintain the tanker. He added that the militia persists in using the tanker as a ticking time bomb and a tool for pressuring and blackmailing the international community, without any regard for the consequences for Yemen, the region, and the world. Information Minister Muammar al-Iryani stated that the Iranian regime and the Houthi militia have intensified their arms smuggling operations, escalated their recruitment of child soldiers, and used civilians and civilian infrastructure as human shields by placing weapons depots, explosive-laden drones, and mine workshops near humanitarian facilities, hospitals, schools, hotels, and the headquarters of UN and NGO organizations. He also addressed the Houthi militia's attack on the US Embassy, ​​looting its contents, raiding the homes of its staff, and their continued enforced disappearance and deprivation of basic rights. He noted that this act exposed the true nature of this rogue group and its blatant disregard for the Vienna Convention and international humanitarian laws, conventions, and norms. He clarified that this crime does not represent the Yemeni people, who hold their brothers and friends in high regard, and that it was perpetrated by a rogue terrorist group originating from the caves of Saada, which seized control of the capital by force of arms. This group, he asserted, lacks any understanding of the fundamentals of political action, state administration, or diplomatic protocols, and follows the Iranian model, no different from other terrorist organizations. The Iranian Minister of Information called on international organizations to act with impartiality and not to overlook the Houthi crimes, which amount to war crimes, particularly those targeting displacement camps in Marib, and the daily crimes in Taiz, including sniper fire and shelling that have killed hundreds of children, women, and the elderly, as well as the siege imposed on the city. The Yemeni Minister of Information, Culture, and Tourism reiterated his government's demands to the international community and the Security Council to designate the Houthi militia and its leaders as terrorists and to pursue and prosecute them in international courts as war criminals.