It is good that the legitimate Yemeni Army finally confronted the Houthi terrorist group. This step should have been taken long ago. Nevertheless, it is better late than never. Recently, the Houthi group crossed all boundaries in its continuous perpetration of terrorist acts both domestically and abroad.
The recent Houthi attacks on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which targeted civilian facilities, is a model of terrorist crime that can neither be justified nor tolerated under any pretext. The Houthi group is a gang that entered a complex path with the success of the legitimate government in controlling strategic locations and several districts. This indicates that the group has become much weaker. The group is expanding the scope of the Iranian front in an attempt to alleviate the pressure on it internally.
The group is trying to achieve certain gains to salvage some of its dignity before its patron, the Iranian regime, which is now in dire need of the support of its proxies in light of the economic and military blockade, which made it lose its political composure. I have repeatedly asserted that this group is an Iranian front, operating according to an agenda dictated by Tehran.
The source of weapons, methods of smuggling them, and how experts from the Revolutionary Guard manage them are well-known and exposed. Therefore, the current situation in Yemen appears to be a complex scenario that transcends the boundaries of a local civil war, especially with the announcement of the Presidential Leadership Council about the launching of Operation Integrated Deterrence.
If political, regional and international support is secured, the Operation Integrated Deterrence will undoubtedly lead to the decapitation of the snake that has spread its terrorism beyond the borders of Yemen to cover the Arabian Peninsula and Bab al-Mandab Strait. Everyone is aware that the Houthi group intends to change the Yemeni reality—ideologically, religiously and politically, aiming at turning Yemen into an Iranian backyard, from which it can penetrate the Arabian Peninsula and achieve the goal of Tehran to dominate the Islamic holy places. However, this plan was met with the decisiveness of the armies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, most notably the Saudi Army.
At that point, the Houthi group was besieged, but the administration of former US President Joe Biden came to power and made an unannounced agreement with the group when it threatened to block ships from passing through the Bab al- Mandab Strait. This agreement made the terrorist organization believe that it could alter the regional balance of power. The Houthi group mistakenly believed that the agreement granted it more room to continue destabilizing the region.
This shift gave the Houthis the green light to take more terrorist actions and destabilize the region, while the legitimate Yemeni government was subjected to significant pressure to maintain the status quo. Therefore, when the legitimate government intercepted the Iranian aircraft transporting weapons to Yemen, the equation shifted dramatically, and the Houthis’ military weakness was further exposed. Consequently, the group has only one option now -- to surrender and abandon its allegiance to Iran. The insistence of the Houthis to not surrender compels the Yemeni people to stand against them and crush them to preserve their cultural, religious, political and economic heritage
