Ansarullah Official: Saudi–Emirati Conflict in Yemen an Open Battle of Plunder, Unrelated to ‘Legitimacy’

Mohammed Al-Farah, member of the Political Bureau of Ansarullah, offered a political assessment of developments in Yemen’s occupied areas, saying they are witnessing an intense struggle among forces of plunder at the expense of a country exhausted by years of war, with the conflict being managed through local proxies.

In a post on social media, Al-Farah said that assessing the situation through a lens of gains and losses reveals Saudi Arabia’s “resounding failure” in Yemen. He argued that Riyadh has lost everything, including to its own ally, the UAE, and that after ten years of war and destruction, it has gained nothing but control over two districts in Marib, stressing that its eventual withdrawal from them is inevitable.

He added that viewing the scene from the perspective of “plain truth” exposes the fall of masks, noting that the Saudi–Emirati conflict has become overt and now centers on Hadramout and Al-Mahrah — areas outside Sana’a’s control and unrelated to what they call “Houthi threat,” which he said lays bare the real motives behind the dispute.

Al-Farah stated that the core reality is that the Saudi-Emirati occupation did not come in support of legitimacy or out of concern for Yemen, but rather to occupy land, divide it as spoils, and treat it as inherited private property.

He concluded that what is taking place cannot be described as an alliance for Yemen, but rather as a conflict among thieves over a battered country, carried out through local tools, with the Yemeni people alone paying the price.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been key actors in Yemen’s war since 2015. In recent years, tensions between the two allies have increasingly surfaced in southern and eastern Yemen, particularly in resource-rich and strategically located governorates, amid growing accusations that the conflict is driven by competing interests rather than stated political objectives.