Head of Yemen’s Ansarullah Movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi, congratulated the Yemeni people on the 12th anniversary of the September 21, 2014 revolution, emphasizing that the revolution achieved its key objectives of freedom, independence, and liberation from the dominance of American hegemony and its allies.
In his speech today, Monday 1448 AH, Sayyed explained that the revolution halted the wrong course that was leading to the collapse of the nation across various fields, considering September 21 as one of the “Days of Allah” in which God bestowed His great grace upon our Yemeni people.
Sayyed congratulated the Yemeni people in general, and the revolutionaries who contributed to the revolution in particular, on this occasion and its achievements, extending congratulations to the martyrs, their families, the wounded, and the Yemeni Armed Forces.
He pointed out that conditions prior to the September 21 revolution reflected the Yemeni people’s urgent need for this revolution, which was a great movement toward revival. He stressed that what occurred before the revolution was a confiscation of the people’s freedom and independence, as foreign guardianship—led by the U.S. and joined by Britain and Saudi Arabia—played a major role.
He noted that the primary role in that guardianship belonged to the Americans and British, while the Israelis were ready to join according to what was being arranged for them. He emphasized that foreign guardianship means the confiscation of freedom and independence, a grave issue resulting in major losses in both religious and worldly life.
He highlighted that the continuation of the pre-revolution status quo would have placed the Yemeni people among occupied, oppressed, and defeated nations—peoples who completely lost their freedom and became entirely subject to enemies who act as they please, desiring them to be exploited, their resources looted, and their homelands occupied under total submission to their enemies’ interests.
Sayyed pointed out the danger of officially declared foreign guardianship, as it represents the guardianship of enemies who do not advise the Yemeni people, do not care for their interests, or treat them with mercy, but are driven solely by their own private interests. He stressed that they are criminal, tyrannical, arrogant, unjust, plundering, and greedy entities that show no mercy to anyone and seek only to achieve their ambitions and interests.
He explained that foreign powers show no concern whatsoever for the interests and rights of other nations, exploiting favorable conditions to the maximum extent to harm other peoples.
He noted that it was remarkable how some components and factions that submitted to foreign guardianship at the time dealt with those parties in good faith, as if they were respectable, kind entities, charitable organizations, or parties holding noble human feelings. This granted those foreign powers further empowerment and opened doors wider for them—a combination of stupidity on one hand and treason on the other by many of those entities, accompanied by handing over the nation’s affairs and decisions until the authority in Sana’a became merely symbolic, limited to executing the dictations of those appointed as guardians over the Yemeni people.
He stated that the official programs across various political, economic, military, and security fields were implemented according to what the Americans, British, and their allies wanted, emphasizing that the result drove the country toward total collapse across all domains.
Sayyed noted that the political situation at the time was heading toward collapse, fragmentation, continuous divisions, and the scattering of the people, alongside persistent crises and other fallout. Foreign powers designed the political and official situation to make Yemen weak, divided, and fragmented, allowing enemies to intervene in all its affairs without hindrance.
He mentioned that those powers worked to dismantle the army—despite its submission at the time to the ruling authority—striving to weaken the military institution and target anything that could contribute to confronting external aggression. This included destroying the air defense force and its equipment, the air force and its aircraft, and other military capabilities, alongside weakening the naval force (which was modest from the start) to keep it merely symbolic.
He explained that the security situation was sliding toward complete collapse, with the spread of assassinations, chaos, and takfiri criminal gangs in Sana’a and various governorates. Assassinations continued systematically in Sana’a, targeting security personnel, army members, citizens, and academic elites, alongside horrifying crimes such as storming hospitals.
Sayyed continued: “The country also witnessed a severe economic collapse and an unjustified economic tightening, despite the availability of capabilities, oil, and gas wealth, the absence of an external blockade, or an official war with external parties at that time—in addition to nations announcing grants, loans, and aid.” He stressed that oil and gas resources were available, as well as state revenues and ports, with no restrictions on imports; yet, a complete economic collapse occurred as a result of programmed, organized policies driving the country toward degradation in all fields.
He added that these policies included dismantling society under political, sectarian, and regional banners amid continuous intervention in state affairs. The U.S. ambassador and assisting ambassadors among the so-called “Group of Ten,” alongside the guardians installed over Yemen, interfered in all domains—particularly the American and British ambassadors, assisted by the Saudi entity.
He affirmed that interventions encompassed all areas of state work, including judicial, educational, security, and military affairs, down to details serving their interests at the nation’s expense. They exploited the atmosphere handed to them by the political factions of that era to cement foreign control over Yemen in various forms. The U.S. ambassador acted like a ruler in Sana’a, a president over the president, issuing orders and directives.
He explained that those directives included commands to move into the popular arena to corrupt and fragment it, and attempting to establish military bases even in Sana’a, among other dangerous practices.
He pointed out that the price the people were paying and forfeiting as a result of that guardianship was their freedom—the most precious human value. Enemies worked to fuel conflicts under various pretexts.
He stressed that the popular revolution restored the people’s dignity and faith-based honor, distinguished by its authenticity and faith identity. It was not a revolution driven by any external party in the world, but an authentic, popular Yemeni decision and movement driven by the people’s own will, decision, and resources.
He noted that the revolution represented a great awakening that alarmed the “Group of Ten” at the time, achieving a historic victory through its adherence to the Yemeni people’s faith identity without importing external identities.
Sayyed confirmed that the revolution was characterized by a genuinely liberationist approach in every sense of the word. These major characteristics were the reason for the enemies’ hostile stance against the Yemeni people when they moved in this revolution, driving them to act against it despite the Yemeni people’s clear adherence to their globally recognized legitimate rights.
He explained that the Yemeni people wanted to be free and independent, while maintaining high values and principles rooted in their faith identity. They were not an aggressive people seeking to attack others, covet their resources, or adopt colonial or chaotic tendencies.
He noted that the Yemeni people were clear regarding foreign policy and their Arab and Islamic surroundings, striving to establish positive relations based on mutual respect, common interests, and respect for independence as a fundamental principle.
He highlighted that the Yemeni people hold a principled, faith-based, and genuinely humanitarian stance toward the major issues facing the Islamic nation and the threats confronting it. Despite this, enemies moved to plot against the Yemeni people and attempt to regain control over them.
He explained that the core issue lies in the ceiling of goals the enemies wish to achieve against the Yemeni people: controlling them, confiscating their freedom and independence, turning Yemen into military bases, and keeping it weak, divided, and mired in severe crises.
Sayyed stated: “Enemies also seek to exploit human resources in Yemen for their demonic and aggressive aims.” He noted that the real problem extends to their local tools—agents and certain political factions that aspired to remain in their unjust ruling positions.
He pointed out that despite the great tolerance and high morals of the Yemeni revolution, which was based on partnership and peace, agents and enemy proxies in the country adopted the same hostile stance as the Americans, Israelis, British, and Saudis, enlisting themselves as submissive soldiers to serve those enemies.
Sayyed concluded by affirming that these proxies engaged in continuous aggression against the Yemeni people to subject them once again to foreign guardianship and enable foreign parties to occupy and control the country under direct U.S. supervision and backing.
Source: Al-Manar English Website