The President of the Supreme Political Council in Sana’a, Mahdi Al-Mashat, affirmed that the “September 21st Revolution” came as the culmination of the Yemeni people’s struggle after decades of “betrayal and frustration,” pointing out that the forces of the former regime “overthrew all legitimacies, squandered all the country’s resources, and violated the homeland’s sovereignty.”
Sana’a – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:
In his speech on the occasion of the eleventh anniversary of the “September 21st Revolution,” Al-Mashat said that the revolution exposed the truth of the forces of the former regime, which “continued accustomed to negligence and betrayal, sold the national decision, and emptied state institutions of their sovereign content in favor of foreign guardianship.”
He added that anyone who recalls the dark period preceding the outbreak of the revolution will realize that Yemen was living the “peak of national decline,” pointing out that some of the ruling local forces at the time “colluded with foreign agendas at the expense of the people, their interests, and the country’s sovereignty and independence.”
He noted that those forces “brought the country to a declared guardianship that turned its sovereignty into a paper in the hands of foreign powers and their ambitions,” confirming that the center of decision-making before the revolution “moved from the presidential palace to the U.S. embassy building, and the ambassador became the one who ordered and forbade.”
Al-Mashat explained that the revolution achieved its goals “at the lowest cost and with the highest degrees of awareness and discipline,” pointing out that it “devoted all its capabilities to supporting the Palestinian people” and was an impenetrable barrier to normalization projects, as he affirmed that “were it not for the revolution, normalization with the Israeli enemy entity would have been declared from Yemen in response to American directives.”
He touched on the aggression against Yemen, saying, “Today, we are ending a decade of brutal American-Saudi aggression that has not stopped to this day, despite all the military arsenals, international alliances, and financial and political capabilities it has mobilized.”
The President of the Supreme Political Council in Sana’a affirmed that after years of “systematic killing and destruction, a suffocating siege, and deliberate starvation,” Yemen today stands “more solid, stronger, and more determined to defend our country and deter any aggression imposed upon it.”
He stressed that the revolution restored Yemen’s historical role at the Arab and Islamic levels, saying, “Our dear people have the right to see their wounds bear fruit of glory, their pains turn into victory, to take pride in their revolution, to cherish their leadership, and to trust the correctness of their approach.”
Al-Mashat affirmed that Yemen’s support for Palestine and Gaza is “strong evidence that Yemen lives outside the era of foreign guardianship and enjoys full independence and complete sovereignty in its decisions,” reiterating “the steadfastness of our position alongside Palestine and its just cause.”
He pointed out that “the Israeli aggression against Arab countries confirms the enemy’s brutality and its pursuit of applying and entrenching the equation of violation with blatant American and Western support.”