Do the eventful days speed up the solution in Yemen or move it towards the "shadow"?
English - Thursday 12 August 2021 الساعة 04:44 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
The past few days have witnessed important events in the context of the Yemeni crisis, the relationship of regional countries and the international interference in it, most notably the appointment of the Swedish diplomat "Hans Grundberg" as the new UN envoy to the United Nations in Yemen, as well as the visit of the Houthi delegation headed by Muhammad Abdulsalam to Tehran, and the attack on a tanker. An oil called "Mercer Street", operated by an Israeli company in the Sea of Oman, led to the killing of two of its crew, a "Romanian and a British", who is accused of being behind Iran through its Houthi arm in Yemen.
Observers believe that the Houthi militia celebrated the inauguration of the new Iranian president, "Ebrahim Raisi", by attacking the tanker "Street" in coordination with the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, and elements of the Islah party "Brotherhood" in Yemen.
The militias also celebrated sending a delegation headed by Muhammad Abdulsalam, a leader in the group, to Tehran to offer congratulations, and to participate in the inauguration of a new phase of combat cooperation against the coalition and the international community, by threatening international navigation in the Red Sea, commensurate with the hard-line president who was installed.
From the first sight of the attack on the tanker, Britain, Israel and the European Union accused Iran of being behind it, before the Ministry of Defense and US intelligence confirmed that, and revealed that Iran's arm was behind the attack by launching Iranian-made drones on the tanker from eastern Yemen.
For his part, Minister of Information Muammar Al-Eryani said that the Iranian regime provided the Houthi militia with all forms of political, financial and military support, and provided it with shipments of weapons, "ballistic missiles, drones", military experts, and experts in the manufacture of all kinds of mines and explosive devices, smuggled oil shipments, and satellite channels and websites and media outlets, to be the arm that threatens national security and international navigation in the Red Sea.
The Houthi leader and head of the group's negotiating delegation, Muhammad Abd al-Salam, had revealed in statements to the "Iranian Al-Alam" channel that his group had received Iranian military support with missiles and drones, and demanded that this support continue.
Abdulalam’s statements confirmed all the news that the Houthis received support and weapons from Iran, since their inception, which the militias vehemently denied, but the situation has changed today with the arrival of a “major” to power in Iran, and he is the most prominent supporter after the Revolutionary Guards leadership of Iranian arms in the region on top of that, the Houthi group.
The Houthi militias took advantage of the new Iranian president's assumption of power in Tehran, to start a new maneuver regarding negotiations and the war on Marib, by presenting impossible initiatives through the Omani delegation that visited Sanaa recently, stressing on the words of its leader Abdulmalik al-Houthi and his spokeswoman Abdulsalam, that this is the most appropriate for Marib, Yemen and the region, and it is waiting a decision to stop the war on Yemen.
Recently, Iran came out through Revolutionary Guard officials to talk about Marib, which has been witnessing Houthi attacks under Iranian field administration for the past six months, to talk through "Kamal Kharazi, the former foreign minister and head of the Strategic Council for Iranian Foreign Relations", about what he described as the "Freedom of Marib", which It will be the key to resolving the Yemeni crisis and will be effective in starting regional negotiations and consultations, he said.
Last April (one day before the month of Ramadan), Iran had threatened the fall of the Marib governorate, and the Iranian Mehr Agency published a news article under the title “Let’s fast tomorrow in Marib and break the fast with its dates”, as part of the Iranian sectarian mobilization to support the militias on the oil and gas-rich Marib.
Iran wants to turn the battle of Marib into an international issue with a strategic dimension, and to thwart all efforts and UN resolutions related to the main crisis represented by the overthrow of legitimacy and control of the Yemeni state institutions, which is what Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah spoke about in his last speech, stressing that The axis of what he called the axis of resistance in Yemen is capable of resolving the battle in Marib, and developing their capabilities in the face of the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
Finally, will the attack on the Israeli tanker in the Sea of Oman lead the international community to hasten an end to the war in Yemen, through international cooperation with the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia, by any means, or will it turn the conflict into regional tension, leaving the Yemeni crisis in the "shadow"?
