"Yemen has suffered from interference by the Iranian regime in its internal affairs and its national sovereignty, by supporting the Houthi armed militia with ballistic missiles and suicide drones, as well as booby-trapped and suicide fast boats and other sophisticated weapons and specific capabilities to include the development and manufacture of surface-to-surface missiles, anti-tank missiles, land and sea mines, explosive devices and the development of many capabilities and their diversion to hostile uses such as missiles and aircraft bombs which is a clear and explicit violation of the international law, the Charter of the United Nations and UN resolutions, including resolutions 2216 and resolution 2231," Spokesman of the Coalition Forces for Supporting the Legitimacy in Yemen Colonel Turki Al-Malki said. He added, "The Houthi militia, backed by Iran, has become the first terrorist group in history to possess ballistic capabilities and launch them against the Yemeni people inside and against its neighbors, specifically Saudi Arabia, to reach villages and border towns, and to Makkah, Yanbu and Riyadh, thus provoking the feelings of millions of Muslims around the world, by targeting the Holy Lands of the Muslims, and pose a threat of the possibility of transmission of these ballistic capabilities to organized crime groups of smugglers as well as terrorist organizations around the world while continuing to threaten neighboring countries with public and hostile threats such as the threat against the United Arab Emirates." He noted the seriousness of what may result from these barbaric attacks of hundreds or even thousands of civilian and innocent victims if they fell on residential neighborhoods, universities, hospitals and other civilian objects. He pointed out that the barbaric targeting calls for balance and wisely dealing with the event by the coalition to support the legitimacy in Yemen by taking the necessary measures to protect the national security in the countries of the coalition and meeting the needs of imports in Yemen of the necessary materials and the needs of the Yemeni people for relief and humanitarian materials which were affected by the coup of the Houthi militia backed by Iran, which led the coalition to support the legitimacy in Yemen to close all Yemeni ports with the continuation of the entry of relief and humanitarian materials so that gaps in the United Nations verification and inspection of ports under the control of the coup were reviewed and corrected and through which the ballistic missiles were smuggled and delivered to the armed Houthi militia through the port of Hodeidah. He pointed out that all imports, oil derivatives, relief and humanitarian materials have been transferred to the ports under the control of the legitimate government, after which all the land, sea and air ports were opened to reach 22 ports operating at full capacity. --More 22:39 LOCAL TIME 19:39 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w651672