Yemeni Armed Forces statement places Riyadh between requirements of peace or comprehensive confrontation
Ushering in a new phase that invalidates the Saudi enemy’s bets on time and puts an end to the policy of procrastination and circumvention of the Yemeni people’s rights, the Yemeni Armed Forces’ statement imposing a maritime navigation ban on the Saudi regime under the equation of “siege for siege” has forged a decisive turning point in the course of confrontation.
The Armed Forces’ declaration emerged from the heart of the escalating humanitarian suffering endured by the Yemeni people over 12 years of blatant siege and the plundering of sovereign wealth. It was grounded in an unprecedented popular mandate from the “Friday of Warning and Mobilization,” imposing a new field and political reality that shifts the stance from responding to peace efforts to imposing direct deterrence equations.
An examination of the timing and rationale of the statement reveals beyond any doubt that the humanitarian suffering caused by the ongoing and blatant siege has reached an intolerable level, especially after the Saudi regime disrupted Yemeni ports and airports and continued to plunder wealth.
In this context, the equation of “siege for siege” carries profound military and field significance. It goes beyond traditional threats to place the economic and maritime arteries of the Saudi enemy under the firepower of the Armed Forces, announcing a heightened state of mobilization and comprehensive readiness to deal with various scenarios, and enforcing the maritime ban as an executive and field measure that came into effect immediately upon its announcement.
The Armed Forces, popularly mandated alongside the justice of the Yemeni cause and the Yemeni people’s suffering, affirm that the rights of the Yemeni people are not a subject for bargaining, and that the era of unilateral siege has ended irrevocably. Today, more than ever, they are stronger and more capable of engaging with the realities of the situation with full competence and capability, without succumbing to any pressures or heeding any bargains.
The decision today lies squarely in the court of the Saudi regime: either respond to the legitimate demands of the Yemeni people by ending the aggression and lifting the siege, and initiating the implementation of humanitarian commitments—including the payment of state employees’ salaries as agreed upon in the roadmap—or bear the catastrophic consequences of the equation of “siege for siege and escalation for escalation” across the region.
The era of betting on time and draining the patience of Yemenis without return has passed. The equation of “siege for siege” has become a fixed field reality in which popular awareness and steadfastness will write the final word, affirming that there will be no retreat and no compromise until the aggression is ended and the comprehensive siege on Yemen is lifted.
In conclusion: The Yemeni Armed Forces are moving today with confident steps to reclaim rights and end the siege by all available means, placing the Saudi enemy before two options and no third: either break the siege and end the aggression, or slide into a phase of comprehensive and severe escalation that will change the face of the region and practically prove that the price of continued recklessness and criminality has become far greater than it can bear.