A senior official in Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has warned that underestimating the country’s military and intelligence capabilities could lead its enemies to make costly miscalculations.

Mohammed al-Farah said on Sunday that Yemen’s capabilities had advanced far beyond the image its enemies continued to project of the country, pointing to the sophistication of Sana’a’s military and intelligence apparatus.

“Sana’a now has advanced capabilities and accumulated expertise far beyond the image of Yemen that its enemies continue to try to confine it to,” al-Farah said, referring to Yemen’s retaliatory attacks against Saudi Arabia.

He said the tendency to portray Yemen’s armed forces as merely a “militant group” reflected a failure to grasp the scale of the country’s military development and the experience it had accumulated in recent years.

“This arrogance leads Yemen’s enemies to underestimate the country’s capabilities, until they find themselves confronted with realities on the ground that force them to seek alternative explanations and justifications,” he said.

“Underestimating the enemy does not diminish its power; rather, it leads those who underestimate it to make miscalculations and pay a heavy price,” al-Farah added.

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The chairman of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council condemned Saudi Arabia for reneging on its commitments and intensifying its blockade against Yemen, stressing that Riyadh’s relentless aggression has created the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.

Al-Farah said Sana’a had undergone a fundamental transformation since 2015, reshaping the course of the confrontation and the way military operations are conducted.

“Our fighters target enemy positions based on precise intelligence and assessments.”

His remarks come as Yemen continues to resist Saudi military aggression, highlighting the military capabilities Sana’a has developed through years of war.

The latest escalation followed Saudi Arabia’s July bombing of Sana’a International Airport. In response, Yemen’s armed forces adopted a “blockade for blockade” policy, declaring a maritime embargo on Saudi shipping in the Red Sea.

In recent weeks, the Yemeni military has announced several successful naval operations targeting ships linked to Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea, enforcing the blockade and impacting Riyadh's energy exports.

The Yemeni forces have also carried out retaliatory attacks on targets deep inside the kingdom and made advances across Yemen’s coastal plain over the last month, reinforcing control over the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait.

Earlier this month, Yemen warned airlines against using Saudi airspace, declaring it unsafe while identifying the airspace over Islam’s holy cities of Mecca and Medina as the only exceptions.

The war traces back to March 2015, when Saudi Arabia, along with a US-backed coalition, launched a sweeping military campaign and blockade on Yemen aimed at reinstalling a puppet regime in Sana'a.

Despite years of bombardment and the deployment of advanced Western weaponry against Yemen, the Saudi coalition has failed to achieve its stated objectives.