Britain Blatantly Backing Saudi-UAE State Terrorism in Yemen

By: Kayhan Int’l 

Britain, the old colonial fox, responsible for most of the political problems of the Muslim world, is again openly resorting to mischief in support of the state terrorism in Yemen of the Saudi-UAE aggressors.

This was evident by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s recent visit to Aden – London’s former stronghold on the Bab al-Mandeb – and his expression of support for the rebel regime of the fugitive from justice Mansour Hadi.

Hunt, who earlier had a meeting in Oman with a representative of the legal government headed by the popular Ansarallah Movement, displayed customary British hypocrisy by trying to distort the topics of his talks as well as the UN mediated peace deal that was agreed upon over a couple of months ago in Sweden by the warring parties.

He is insisting that the crucial seaport of Hudaydah be handed over to the aggressors, whom he has failed to denounce and instead calls the Ansarallah ‘rebels’.

Strange logic indeed! A popular government in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, which has the strong support of the national army and most of the tribes, who want independence for the country and not any dependence on either the West or Saudi Arabia, is being called ‘rebel’!

The diabolical attitude of the West, including Britain, is crystal clear and is also apparent in the statements and behaviour of the UN representative for working out a solution to the crisis in Yemen – Martin Griffith, a former British diplomat who can barely conceal his bias.

The statement released by Ansarllah has rightly said: "Martin Griffith appears not to be an envoy of the United Nations, but a British envoy representing London, especially after the Britain’s Foreign Office has made its objectives and position clear, which is in line with the obstruction of the agreement.” 

It is also worth noting that Britain has licensed over £4.7 billion worth of arms exports, including missiles and fighter jets, to the regime in Riyadh since the start of the Saudi-UAE aggression on Yemen in early 2015.

The regime in London has also been providing combat intelligence and target data to Saudi Arabia over the course of the war.

In view of these undeniable facts, the identity of the violators of the Sweden accord is no longer a secret.
Britain, the US, and the illegal Zionist regime, are hand-in-glove with Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the state terrorism against the people of Yemen. 

Under the circumstances, peace is not possible through talks at the negotiating table, and this means the war which is about to enter its fifth year, might drag on with mounting casualties and draining of the petrodollars of the aggressors, and, of course, more death and destruction for the people of Yemen, who are resolved to ward off the aggression by facing disease and starvation, rather than surrender to Global Arrogance.

Indomitable Yemenis Turning Bab al-Mandeb Into a Real Gateway of Tears for the Saudi-UAE Coalition

Yemen, or more properly the patriotic people of that war torn country who hate to be under the thumbnail of the US and have over the past three years held their ground against the war machine of the heavily Saudi-UAE coalition, inflicting heavy losses on the aggressors, are worthy of salutation.
Their recent daring raid on the UAE occupied port of Mokha near the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait that wiped out a military base of the aggressors, including the killing of the regional UAE commander, once again proved their indomitable spirit.

At the same time, the Yemenis struck with missiles and sank an advanced UAE naval craft with all soldiers on board, thereby thwarting an attempt to land troops near the besieged port of Hodeidah. This was 16th ship of the coalition to be targeted and the 14th to be sunk.

With meagre resources, shortage of food and medicine due to the air, sea and land blockade, deprived of modern public amenities because of destruction of the infrastructure by the unabated Saudi air strikes, step-motherly treatment by the UN which acting as a tool of the US wants to impose the regional hegemony of Riyadh upon them, and in the face of intense propaganda on the international scale that brands these heroic defenders of their homelands as ‘rebels’, the Yemeni people led by the popular Ansarallah Movement have proved their indomitable spirit to the whole world.

They are neither warmongers nor saboteurs of peace, yet the World Body is unwilling to listen to their just demands for the independence of Yemen and formation of a broad-based national government representing the various tribes and religious groups of the land. Instead the UN repeats in
parrot-like fashion the Saudi taught mantra of the fugitive Mansour Hadi being the ‘internationally-recognized president’, little realizing that this is a questionable term, when the vast majority of the people, even in southern Yemen, have never granted him national recognition.

So far over 20,000 Yemenis have lost their life, hundreds of thousands have been displaced from their homes, and millions are facing starvation and epidemic diseases, but the Saudi-UAE led aggression continues against them with the full backing of the US, the UK, France and the illegal Zionist
entity, all of whom supply the invaders of Yemen with lethal state-of-the-art military technology.

When the Yemeni defenders retaliate with short and long range missiles on the military-industrial installations of the aggressors, especially of Saudi, then a hue and cry is raised that the Ansarallah are committing war crimes and the Islamic Republic of Iran is supplying them missiles and drones.

Strange logic indeed! When the Saudis have destroyed almost the entire infrastructure of Yemen, are daily killing innocent men, women, and children, and are preventing the flow of food and medicine, yet these brutalities are not considered war crimes.

More strange is Iran’s alleged supply of arms and ammunitions to blockaded Yemen – as if the Ansarallah have no right to procure weapons from international markets although they do not need it in view of their wellstacked arsenals – while there seems to be nothing wrong with the pouring in of deadly weapons into the over-stocked arsenals of the aggressors, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

If Iran were to actually supply military technology to the Ansarallah, the Saudi-UAE aggressors would not only have been defeated and driven out of Yemen, but the Yemenis would have liberated their Saudi-occupied northern provinces of Asir, Najran, and Jizan, which the Wahhabis had seized
in 1934.

With the Saudi-UAE aggressors doing a slow, face saving retreat after their failed offensive on Hodeida, the UN, ought to end its delusion of taking charge of the Hodeida port and should instead try to salvage its credibility by negotiating the complete withdrawal of the aggressors from Yemen,
so that the different Yemeni factions can get together to form a broad-based national government.

Then only can peace return to Yemen, since, as said at the beginning of this column, the Yemeni people hate any foreign meddling in their internal affairs, whether it is from Saudi, UAE, or the Americans.

In view of this fact, recently the Head of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashart, called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to play a mediating role for a peaceful end to the crisis in order to save the Red Sea and the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait from turning into an American Lake
as the Saudis and Emiratis are trying to do.

In the meantime, the Ansarallah are determined to defeat the designs of the aggressors by turning the Bab al-Mandeb into a real Gateway of Tears and the Red Sea a crimson-blood waterway for the Saudis, the Emiratis and the Americans.

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 Kayhan Int’l