Al-Mahra is the artery of the Houthis and the Brotherhood.. Will British forces succeed in preventing the arrival of Iranian weapons?
English - Thursday 12 August 2021 الساعة 08:31 am
Aden, NewsYemen:
The Brotherhood and Houthi groups from Al-Mahra Governorate used a theater to target international shipping and blackmail the Arab coalition, which was revealed by the terrorist operation that targeted a British oil tanker off the Omani coast a few days ago.
British military forces arrived in Al-Mahra Governorate two days ago, after the oil tanker was targeted, after receiving information that Iran was behind the attack, via drones launched from Yemen.
And the British Express website said, last Sunday, that a group of 40 members of the Special Air Force (SAS) arrived at Al-Ghaidha Airport in Al-Mahra Governorate in eastern Yemen, where local employees cooperating with the British Foreign Office and familiar with the situation in the region are helping them to chase down “mercenaries from a group Houthis responsible for the attack.
Deputy Assistant Minister of Defense for Middle East Affairs Dana Stroul confirmed that the operation to target the tanker "Mercer Street" came from Yemen via an Iranian drone.
The British website said, "The aim of the military forces' arrival in Al-Mahra Governorate is to track down terrorists and stop the smuggling of Iranian weapons to the militias."
Subsequently, the Houthis expressed their fear of any international military presence in the Al-Mahra governorate, adjacent to the State of Oman, which is used as an arena for smuggling Iranian weapons with the help of Mahri leaders, led by Ali Salem Al-Huraizi, who also mobilized the so-called sit-in and escalation committee against any military presence against Iran and its project
The Saudi forces, which have been in Mahra for two years, have been subjected to Brotherhood media campaigns funded by the Turkish and Qatari regimes, and the Brotherhood media considers the military presence in Mahra an occupation and aggression, which confirms that it is a unified discourse of the Houthi and Brotherhood groups against the Arab axis against Iran and its allies.
The southern journalist, Muhammad Bahdad, considered the arrival of a British force in Al-Mahra Governorate, the southeastern gateway to the mission of pursuing the terrorist Houthi militia elements involved in the attack on the Mercer Street ship off the Arabian Sea, as a dangerous indication of the close cooperation of the Houthi militia with its local authority, which colludes to bring down the governorate.
The Islah party threatened chaos in Al-Mahra governorate, after British forces arrived in the southern governorate.
The Islah Party, the al-Mahra branch, said in a statement, that the presence of any foreign military forces outside the framework of the coalition will drag the governorate into chaos, motivating agendas, ambitions, and a frantic race that detracts from the sovereignty of the country.
The military spokesman for the Southern Transitional Council, Muhammad al-Naqib, had revealed earlier about a dangerous Turkish-Iranian game in Al-Mahra Governorate through their local tools, the Brotherhood and the Houthis, targeting the south and the Arab coalition.
Southern politician Saeed Abdullah believes that what is happening in Mahra is expected in light of the refusal of the Saudi Special Committee to form Mahri elite forces, and to maintain Brotherhood camps in the governorate.
Abdullah said that the legitimate forces in Al-Mahra are joint forces of the Houthis and the Brotherhood to maintain unity, warning that the southern governorate will remain under the authority of the Brotherhood’s legitimacy, stressing that this is in the interest of Iran and its local tools.
Observers believe that "the re-formation and building of the southern military forces, the Mahri elite, and their enabling of land and sea ports in Mahra, is the right path to secure international navigation and prevent Iranian weapons smuggling to the Houthi militia."
The UAE succeeded in forming security belts and military elites in all the southern governorates, and thus achieved victories over the Houthis and terrorism, and secured large southern areas and prevented the smuggling of Iranian weapons to the Houthis.
