Yemen Crisis/Conflict & the "Decisive Storm" Coalition

Jeff Head

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ShahryarHedayat

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SAUDI-LED COALITION IN YEMEN MORE IN COMMON WITH 19TH-CENTURY EUROPE THAN 21ST-CENTURY MIDDLE EAST

Saudi Arabia’s recent intrusion into Yemen is ostensibly part of a bitter proxy war with Iran. But the coalition that Riyadh has assembled to intervene in Yemen’s civil war has more in common with 19th-century Europe than the 21st-century Middle East.
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ShahryarHedayat

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Iran official warns against further strikes in Yemen

Hours before Saudi Arabia officially announced the end of Operation Decisive Storm, the military operation against the Houthis in Yemen, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein-Amir Abdollahian expressed his optimism “that due to our efforts,” a cease-fire would be reached in the coming hours.

The cease-fire has been reached, and as is the case with most wars in the region, both the Houthis and the
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are celebrating their victory. So are the Iranians, who raised the stakes so high during the past three weeks that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is known for being cautious in his speeches, warned Riyadh that its nose was going to be rubbed in the mud of Yemen.

According to an Iranian official who spoke to Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity, “If this war continued for a few days more, it would have been very difficult to reach a cease-fire.” He explained, “Ansar Allah was keen not to take the battle to another stage. Yet if the Saudis continued this way, they would cross the red lines they drew for themselves. This is what was conveyed to the Saudis through mediators.”

The source revealed that Oman played an important and effective role in bridging gaps between the warring parties. He said, “Oman offered to host any future dialogue,while its foreign minister and his team tailored an initiative that should be a road map for a solution in Yemen. This initiative, along with
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, created an environment appropriate for a cease-fire.”

Iran conveyed a serious message to Saudi Arabia, that the Houthi movement is capable of responding to Saudi coalition air raids on Yemen inside Saudi Arabia through its mid-range missiles and anti-aircraft rockets that had not yet been used. A Houthi source in Sanaa told Al-Monitor over the phone that the group’s leadership decided to adopt what it called strategic patience in an attempt not to make a consensus difficult. “It’s not our objective to hit the Saudis or attack posts inside Saudi Arabia. We did it back in 2009, and we are capable of doing it today,” the source added. “What we want is going into a dialogue and ridding our country of al-Qaeda, and that’s why we didn’t stop advancing from one city to another, despite the war on us.”

This is the message the Iranians conveyed through a third party April 21, while Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokeswomen Marzieh Afkham revealed in a press release that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held a phone discussion with US Secretary of State John Kerry over Yemen. Some media reports suggested Kerry told Zarif the
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and will convince Saudi Arabia to cease fire and in return will help in the political dialogue.

Abdollahian told Al-Monitor, “While the 27-day war that Saudi Arabia launched on the people of Yemen will remain a dark point in the history of the region, the resistance and patience shown by the people of Yemen was a turning point.” He added, “Iran exerted serious efforts to end the war and the
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taking place in Yemen. Iran backs a political path and stresses the importance of dialogue.”

He added, "The kingdom’s raids actually target Yemen’s infrastructure and the people who are fighting against the terrorists.”

Abdollahian also denounced as “totally baseless” the allegation that Tehran is providing arms to the Houthi movement's Ansar Allah fighters, saying that the presence of Iran’s naval forces in the Gulf of Aden falls within the framework of international regulations. “Iran’s policy is to help promote peace, security and stability in Yemen and the whole region,” he said.

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Oman has done a great job
 
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ShahryarHedayat

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Saudi Prince Rewards Pilots With Bentleys For Bombing Yemen

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world’s richest men and a member of the Saudi royal family, vowed Tuesday to give a Bentley luxury car to 100 pilots who served in Saudi-led airstrikes against Yemen.

In his Arabic-language tweet, Prince Alwaleed wrote, “I congratulate our leaders on the success of Operation Resolute Storm and the start of Operation Restoring Hope. To recognize the one hundred participating Saudi pilots, I am pleased to give them 100 Bentley automobiles.”

The cost of a luxury-brand Bentley typically begins at around $180,000.

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ShahryarHedayat

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Iran defense minister: Saudi Arabia will fail in Yemen


At a security conference in Moscow on April 16, Hossein Dehghan, Iran’s defense minister, said, “The Saudi government, which undertook this military invasion with the help of America and Israel and intelligence help from some regional countries, not only will not achieve its own illegitimate goals, but has provided the grounds for its own collapse and irreparable failures and a similar fate of that of Saddam [Hussein] is awaiting it.”

He added, “The Saudi government should know that by supporting financially, logistically and by training of takfiris and terrorists in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Caucuses, and attacking Yemen while preventing humanitarian aid, will not turn it into an important country in the region.”Dehghan said that Saudi Arabia will become an important country in the region when it can unite Muslims and bring together the different sects, given that they are the custodian of the two holy mosques in Islam.


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ShahryarHedayat

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Saudi Arabia’s deepening isolation in Yemen


In an unusual and stinging rebuke, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif this week rejected Saudi Arabia’s request to join its military campaign in Yemen.


The Wall Street Journal reported that 648 civilians have been killed since the start of the Saudi airstrikes, which have hit hospitals, schools and a refugee camp. US officials have quietly begun to express reservations about the Saudi campaign targeting one of the poorest countries in the world.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who met with US President Barack Obama in Washington this week, warned that the Saudi attacks in Yemen could be a catalyst for a broader sectarian war. Adnan Abu Zeed reports from Baghdad that the Yemen war is deepening Sunni-Shiite animosity among Iraqis.


Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah picked up Iran’s call for negotiations and an end to airstrikes. Ali Hashem reports: “On Iran’s readiness for dialogue, Nasrallah indicated that Tehran is ready to talk with Saudi Arabia, yet it is Saudi Arabia that is 'being stubborn because it has failed in all countries, in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, and it is seeking a success before sitting down at the negotiation table.'”


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ShahryarHedayat

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Yemeni Army And Houthis Take Control Of Arish Town In Aden Province


The Houthi forces had seized Several towns and villages such as Al Musayna'a, Al Sleimaniya, Al Nakhba, and Al Gaham. They are advancing towards Al Mukalla. They killed many of their opponents and seized their equipments and weapons.

The Saudi air Force will have less areas to air drop weapons to its proxy army namely the
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and Hadi's supporters. The militants have been chased out of yet another town, Arish, in the Aden province by the Houthis and Yemeni army. During the operation, the Houthis captured weapons and vehicles left behind by the fleeing AQ.
 
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asif iqbal

asif iqbal

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Did I not say at the start of this Yemen campaign that it can't succeed without ground forces??

No chance that the coalition can control the ground from the air, special forces might cut it but they would have to be the world best boots on the ground

UK spent decades in Yemen and Oman it's not going to work, tough terrains harsh condition and impossible to tie the enemy down

This campaign is not going to succeed unless Saudi sends in 250,000 troops ensures a naval blockade and controls the air, we are taking AWACS, electronic jamming, surveillance aerial tankers and ten full air package

Said it before and saying it again this operation is a waste of time sensible thing would be to pull out before they get bogged down
 
Jeff Head

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This is the guy from Al Queda who claimed responsibility for the attack on the Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France:

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has killed the senior Al-Qaeda official who appeared in a video claiming the deadly January attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, who was killed in the April strike along with his eldest son and other fighters in the port city of Mukalla, also appeared in Al-Qaeda videos claiming the holding and death of US hostage Luke Somers, SITE Intelligence Group said.

The announcement of his death came in a video posted on Thursday on Twitter by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula - which Washington considers the international terror network's deadliest branch.

The air raid appears to have been carried out overnight on April 21-22, when witnesses in Mukalla said an apparent US drone strike on a vehicle parked near the presidential palace in the city killed six suspected Al-Qaeda militants.

Ansi appeared in the video released on January 14 in which AQAP claimed it had carried out the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris to avenge its publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Citing an AQAP video issued in November, SITE said the Taez-born Ansi had pursued jihad in Bosnia in 1995 before travelling to Afghanistan via Yemen and Kashmir to train in Al-Qaeda camps.

It was in Afghanistan that the terror network's now slain leader Osama bin Laden "tasked him with administrative affairs, before he entered the military field," according to SITE.

"He was jailed in Yemen and released after six months, and in 2011... joined AQAP," said the US-based group that monitors jihadist websites.

The United States is the only country that operates drones over war-torn Yemen.

In Washington, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter declined to confirm that Ansi had been the victim of a US strike.

"I cannot give you a specific answer on a particular strike," Carter said. "I will say that on the general question of AQAP, we will continue to apply pressure."
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Good...they can run, but they can't hide.
 
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