Yemen’s new leaders are “ready for war” should the latest push for peace with Houthi rebels fail, but a senior official told AFP they genuinely want the years-long conflict to end soon. “Our first option is peace, but we are ready for war,” Abdullah al-Alimi said late Saturday in his first interview since being named to an eight-member leadership council tasked with running the country after President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi stepped down earlier this month. “We believe the council is in a position, with the coalition support, to score a decisive military victory,” Alimi told AFP in the Saudi ca…