The Yemeni government demanded the UN Security Council to take firm decisions regarding the continued manipulation and evasion by the Houthi coup militia without taking real treatment leading to an end to the risk of a leak, drowning or explosion of the Saffir oil tanker and the catastrophic environmental threat it represents to Yemen, the region and the world as a whole.

Minister of Information, Muammar al-Iryani, made clear hours before the Security Council held a special session to discuss the issue, which was quoted by the official Saba agency, that "the approval of the Iranian-backed Houthi coup militia to conduct an examination and evaluation of the Saffir oil tanker by a technical team belonging to the United Nations is a new political evasive that precedes the scheduled Security Council session."

He added, "The Houthi approval is limited to examining and evaluating the Saffir oil tank, not unloading its crude oil."

Al-Iryani stressed, "The credibility of the international community regarding the continuous manipulation and evasive followed by the Houthi coup militia is in front of a real test in the session of the UN Security Council, which will discuss the dangers of oil leakage from the Saffir oil tanker or its exploding, which the militia takes as a tool of blackmail and bargaining without attention to the disastrous consequences and damages on Yemen and the region."

The Minister pointed out that "the leakage of oil from the Saffir tank will lead to an environmental, economic and humanitarian catastrophe, in addition to the extinction of rare marine species found only in the Red Sea and the damage of coral reefs in the Red Sea, which, according to experts, has become the only hope in the face of the potential extinction in the rest of the seas and oceans as a result of climate change."