The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, in his Facebook account said, “Yemeni soldiers and allied fighters launched a newly-developed medium-range ballistic missile Qassem (Raider) missile at the strongholds of Saudi soldiers and their mercenaries in the Saqam area of the region, leaving dozens of them killed and injured. The projectile hit its designated targets with great precision.”
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The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces highlighted that the attack was launched after a delicate intelligence operation.
He noted that Qassem is a newly-developed missile which is used by the armed forces. Saree noted that despite cooperation of Saudis with the UAE in supporting Yemen President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi government, both countries have differences on how to present a better image of the incident to the world and Riyadh wants the formation of South Yemen country to be postponed and activities of Transitional Council forces to be continued under the Saudi coalition.
Saree noted that the UAE wants to show the world that what is happening in south of Yemen is a beginning for formation of a new country and it tries to convince Saudis in this regard although both countries back the idea of partition of Yemen.
Media adviser to the Yemeni embassy in Riyadh, Anis Mansour, last Sunday told Al-Jazeera news channel that some in Mansour Hadi’s government believe that Saudis have been behind coup in Aden.
Saad Al-Faqih, a prominent Saudi dissident and head of the Muslim Reform Movement, revealed that the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has agreed to a coup led by the UAE-backed militias against Yemeni President Hadi and the division of Yemen.
In an interview with Al Khaleej Online, Al-Faqih said that Saudi Arabia had colluded with the UAE and its militias in Yemen by stopping logistical support for the legitimate forces in Aden and withdrawing the Giants Brigade which are considered as Hadi’s important force.
Arab coalition under the leadership of Saudi Arabia on March 26, 2015 began its operation in order to support the resigned Yemeni government President Hadi. Due to successive savage attacks, Yemeni people are suffering from severest human crisis in the world and according to the United Nations report, 22m Yemenis, almost 75% of the country’s Yemen population, are in dire need of humanitarian aids.
Yemen war has led to death and wound of thousands of people and it is leading the country towards famine and hunger. But alas, there has been no action from the awakened minds in the world or from so-called organizations of human-rights to stop the devastating war.
By: Hamid Reza Naghashian
