Yemen’s President Mahdi al-Mashat chaired a high-level meeting of the National Defense Council to address the latest developments concerning the ongoing US military aggression against Yemen and to reaffirm Yemen’s commitment to supporting the Palestinian people in Gaza.
‘The aggression has failed from its first day. We previously obtained information to thwart the aggression before it occurred, preventing much potential damage,” President al-Mashat said during the meeting.
“If the Americans mobilize more, it means their weapons have failed. The confirmed information we have is that the “Truman” lost its command and control and became out of service from the early days of the aggression.”
He added, “We obtained intelligence that allowed us to thwart the aggression before it occurred, sparing us from many potential damages. Confirmed information indicates the Truman lost command and control, becoming non-operational in the aggression’s early days.”
He further stated that Yemen’s armed forces have overcome the US electromagnetic interception system—a technology that Washington had previously touted as a major strategic deterrent against Russia and China.
“Within ten days,” he said, “our missile forces overcame the system, and strikes have now successfully reached Israeli territory.”
Al-Mashat called this achievement as a significant military and symbolic victory for Yemen.
He said that the aggression against Yemen originated once or twice from the USS Truman, while the remainder of the attacks came from other locations, which Yemeni forces continue to monitor closely.
He underlined that former US President Donald Trump has “burned all of America’s strategic cards”—citing the aircraft carrier, the strategic bomber, and the highly touted electromagnetic defense system. These assets, he said, have proven ineffective in Yemen, where they were quickly neutralized or rendered irrelevant by Yemeni resistance.
President Al-Mashat asserted that “neither you nor your father, Trump, can stop us from fulfilling our humanitarian, moral, and religious duty toward the people of Gaza.” Regardless of threats or consequences, Yemen will not waver in its support, he emphasized.
He contrasted the resilience of the Yemeni people with Trump’s behavior under fire. “A Yemeni woman stood firm against five bombs dropped by your strategic bomber,” he said, “while Trump panicked and the world was shaken when a single bullet grazed his ear.”
President Al-Mashat stated that the three strategic options the US had long used to intimidate the world—the aircraft carrier, the strategic bomber, and the electromagnetic defense system—have all been thrown into the Yemeni quagmire.
He stressed that despite the scale of US aggression, Yemen’s military infrastructure suffered minimal damage.
“On the military level, we were not harmed even 1% by everything the American has done,” he said. “All the massacres targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure.”
He added that the B-2 bomber, another symbol of US military might, would soon face its own reckoning. “By God’s permission, news of it will come soon,” he said confidently.
President Al-Mashat pointed out that the Truman achieved no tangible results for the enemy, which ultimately forced the US to deploy other vessels and weapons. “Every replacement brought in is simply further evidence of their initial failure,” he noted.
Reflecting on the nature of struggle, he remarked that “before every victory comes an earthquake—so that God may distinguish the wicked from the good. And once purified, the righteous will be granted victory.”
President Al-Mashat reiterated Yemen’s unwavering support for Gaza. “Our stance in supporting our brothers there is firm and will never be abandoned,” he said. The current American aggression, he explained, is a direct result of Yemen’s refusal to remain silent about the genocide in Gaza.
He affirmed that the US role in the region is one of complicity with Zionist crimes. “We cannot allow the Americans and Israelis to isolate the Palestinian people in Gaza,” he declared. “We will not stand by as they are slaughtered.”
Turning his criticism directly at Trump, he said that the “Trump drowned in the quagmire of Yemen and planted resentment toward America in the hearts of the world—and he must be left in his quagmire.”
President Al-Mashat warned that Trump will eventually be held accountable for the crimes committed against civilians and civilian sites in Yemen, regardless of whether he remains in office or not.
“Trump may have thought he was coming for a picnic,” he added, but he fell into a strategic quagmire.
