Hezbollah: US 'terror' designation for Yemen’s Ansarullah criminal act

  Hezbollah said in a statement late on Monday that Washington is not content with supporting and participating in the Saudi-led aggression on Yemen, and intends to target the Ansarullah movement and three of its leaders, namely Abdul Malik al-Houthi, Abd al-Khaliq Badr al-Din al-Houthi and Abdullah Yahya al-Hakim, with sanctions.     “It is a criminal move that seeks to hurt the morale of Yemenis, who have been resiliently confronting the unfair blockade and aggression,” the statement added. “The United States bears the responsibility for all potential humanitarian and health repercussions.”Hezbollah highlighted that the US measure, besides similar hostile moves it had adopted against resistance movements in the region, is meant to punish all those who reject America’s hegemony and dominance over the region’s capabilities and resources, and oppose Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands and normalization of ties with the Tel Aviv regime. The Lebanese resistance movement then voiced solidarity with Ansarullah and its leaders, stressing that the Yemeni movement will become more steadfast and determined to safeguard the country’s resources and national interests in the face of the US sanctions. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that the move against Yemen’s Ansarullah movement will come into effect on January 19 — one day before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, whose aides have hoped to mount a fresh push to end Yemen’s devastating six-year war. Separately, the Iraqi al-Nujaba movement expressed solidarity with Ansarullah and strongly condemned the US move to blacklist the Yemeni movement.     “Men like Sayyed Abdul Malik al-Houthi and his fellow Yemeni combatants do not need the approval of a deceiver who ignores thousands of innocent victims, and turns a blind eye to Yemen’s destruction, hunger as well as the aggression of the Wahhabi-Zionist-American alliance,” Nasr al-Shammari wrote in a post published on his Twitter page. He added, “It is of enormous honor and dignity for any free resistance fighter to be on the side of this great commander [Abdul Malik al-Houthi] and brave Yemeni combatants.”