Mohammed Ali al-Houthi said on social media that the era of military threats
against Qatar is over, the Arabic-language El-Nashra news website reported on
Saturday.
Addressing the Qatari nation, he said, "Do not worry about any threat from Saudi
Arabia because they (Saudis) are drowned in the battle of Yemen, in which they
used whatever they had to fan the flames and massacre.”
"You have weapons like them, and your fighter jets that shooed the UAE (planes)
away are still prepared,” he said, adding, "You have military treaties with
Turkey that intimidate them (Saudis)."
The remarks came after Saudi Arabia threatened to launch military action against
Qatar, if it goes again with the purchase of Russia's S-400 anti-aircraft
missile system, according to French media.
King Salman sent a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron warning that Saudi
Arabia might use force to prevent Qatar from acquiring the S-400, Le Monde
reported on Friday.
In the letter, Salman expressed his "profound concern" about the slated sale of
the leading Russian anti-aircraft missile system to blockaded Qatar and asked
the French president to intervene.
Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by a coalition led by
the Saudi regime for more than three years but Riyadh has reached none of its
objectives in Yemen so far.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying
out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to
restore power to fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally
of Riyadh.
Over 14,000 Yemenis, including thousands of women and children, have lost their
lives in the deadly military campaign.
Source: Tasnim News