Brigadier General Mohammed Nasser al-Atefi, defense minister of the National Salvation Government and former commander of the Yemeni Missile Unit, said that army forces and popular committees and all freedmen throughout Yemen had achieved great victories against the Saudi coalition and its mercenaries during the seven years of war.
In an interview with the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, he added, "Based on our military and strategic concept, we are announcing to the world today that the global aggression against Yemen has failed and that the aggressor coalition has no choice but to bravely admit this defeat."
Al-Atefi stated that the recapture of the city of Ma'rib is imminent and that soon, with the permission of God Almighty, the Yemeni people and all the free people of the ummah will hear good news, and Ma'rib will return to his homeland.
He said:
Marib is the land of Yemen and all the regions of Yemen will soon return to the rule of this country, and this is an indisputable issue.