Since the arrival of Airlo ... the Houthi strikes and the targeting of Saudi Arabia and the West Coast (in numbers)
English - Sunday 21 February 2021 الساعة 09:29 am
Sanaa, NewsYemen, Special Report:
It is no longer a secret that the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, is assuming the task of delivering Tehran's military and security messages to the countries of the region, led by Saudi Arabia, whenever the pressure on it from the international community escalates regarding its nuclear file or its support for armed terrorist movements in the region. And helping it destabilize security and stability in the Middle East.
The Houthi militia's escalation of its military operations and the increase in the frequency of its attacks and targeting, whether on the internal fronts, or their attacks against Saudi Arabia, reveal how these militias implement Tehran's agenda, as is the case when the observer sees that during the two days (7-8) of February, during which the UN envoy was Private to Yemen Martin Griffiths visits Tehran, the Houthi militia escalated its targeting of Riyadh by launching six drones on Saudi territory in less than twenty-four hours.
On September 14, 2019, when Iran was under increasing pressure from the American administration, Tehran carried out attacks on the Abqaiq and Khurais facilities of the Saudi Aramco oil company, using drones and cruise missiles, and instructed the Houthi militia to announce that they were behind these attacks, which revealed its falsehood with evidence. The United States of America provided them via satellite images, before the UN Security Council experts ’report confirmed that these attacks were not launched from Yemen, as the estimated range of the weapons systems used do not allow launching from territory under the control of the Houthis.
A year after that attack, Tehran announced the appointment of an ambassador to the Houthi authority in Sana'a, the leader of the "Quds Force" of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Hassan Erlo, who arrived in Sana'a in a manner described as a smuggling operation that violates all diplomatic norms, and since that date the pace has increased Significantly, the attacks launched by the Houthi militia against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, by explosive drones and ballistic missiles.
According to statistics prepared by NewsYemen, the Houthi militia carried out from the twenty-second of October 2020, four days after the arrival of the Tehran ambassador, four days until the seventeenth of February 2021 AD, about a hundred attacks using unmanned drones, of which (35) attacks targeted Saudi territory, and 12 attacks targeted Yemeni territory. While drones were used in reconnaissance operations of the joint forces' positions on the western coast, 52 times.
Earlier, sources close to the Houthi militia, in an interview with "NewsYemen", linked the increase in Houthi attacks on Saudi territory to the arrival of the Iranian ambassador, who is a military commander and missile expert who worked in southern Lebanon, in addition to being an officer specializing in anti-aircraft weapons, tanks and armored vehicles. According to a study published in 2009.
While the report of the Security Council's sanctions committee for the year 2020 accused Iran of continuing to supply the Houthi militias with weapons, the same team's report for the previous year mentioned that the Houthi militia possesses a large arsenal of three types of drones, one of which is capable of carrying 5 kg of explosives, And that the types of drones most common in the Houthi arsenal are similar to those manufactured by Iran, accusing it of “deploying small and medium-sized unmanned drones to carry out various roles ranging from their use in reconnaissance and their use as munitions floating around and striking their targets, or the so-called“ suicide drones ” without pilot"".
The report indicated that its investigation of Houthi drones revealed the involvement of individuals and entities of Iranian origin in financing the purchase of supplies of drones for the Houthis in Yemen.
In numbers: Al Houthi marches against Saudi Arabia and Iran's agenda
Official statistics announced by the Arab Coalition indicate that the Houthi militia has launched 515 drones on Saudi Arabia since the start of its operations in Yemen in 2015.
The spokesman for the Arab coalition forces, Colonel Turki Al-Maliki, said in statements that the Houthis are trying to influence civilians through suicide planes, and that their recent escalation is deliberate, and their decision is stolen from Iran's generals.
According to the monitoring prepared by NewsYemen, the Houthi militia, since the arrival of the Iranian ambassador, has stepped up its attacks on Saudi territory since the start of Tehran's ambassador Hassan Erlo to his work in Sanaa, where the number of attacks launched by the Houthi militia on Saudi Arabia (35) attacks using booby-traps, including five Attacks during the last week of October, while the march attacks escalated during November, when the coalition shot down ten drones launched by the Houthi militia on Saudi Arabia.
The use of the Houthi marches against Saudi Arabia escalated after the arrival of Earlo, who has come to be described as the military ruler of Sanaa, linked to Iranian agendas and interests and the changes in the region, as it was noticed that the Houthi drone attacks against Saudi Arabia decreased during December and January, a period that witnessed the increasing pressure of the US administration to former US President Donald Trump has imposed on Iran and its armed arms in the region by imposing more sanctions that have targeted Iranian entities, institutions, companies and leaderships, and at the same time imposing sanctions on the leaders of the armed militias affiliated with Iran in Lebanon and Iraq and the US State Department designating the Houthi militia as a terrorist organization on the tenth of last January.
According to analysts, the decline in Houthi targeting of marches against Saudi Arabia during December and January was linked to Iran's attempt to reduce negative actions to destabilize the region's security in the last days of the administration of former US President Donald Trump, especially since the Trump administration's sanctions extended to include Iran's armed arms in the region, including the Houthi militia.
Analysts add: After the new US administration headed by Biden announced the cancellation of the classification of the Houthi militia as a terrorist organization on February 6, the Houthi militia returned to escalate its attacks on Saudi Arabia using unmanned drones, thus providing evidence of the mistake that the US administration committed in canceling the classification, and at the time. Itself is sending clear signals that its operations against Saudi Arabia are linked to the Iranian agenda.
The monitoring prepared by NewsYemen confirms that the Houthi militia has stepped up its attacks on Saudi Arabia using drones, as the number of attacks launched by it reached 14 attacks from February 7 to the 17th of the month, including six attacks by drones on the day after Washington announced that the militia had been canceled as a terrorist organization. In conjunction with the presence of the UN envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, in Tehran, while Houthi bombed aircraft targeted the Saudi civilian airport in Abha twice within a week.
The Security Council's team of experts confirmed that attacking the Houthis with civilian targets with a drone could constitute a violation of international humanitarian law.
It is worth noting that the statistics monitored by NewsYemen on the number of drones used by the Houthi militia in attacking Saudi Arabia within four months of the arrival of the Iranian ambassador to Sanaa do not include the attacks carried out by the militias on Saudi Arabia using ballistic missiles, which the coalition says has been shot down since 2015, 345 A ballistic missile launched by the Houthi militia at Saudi Arabia.
On the other hand, the monitoring prepared by NewsYemen shows that the period following the arrival of the Iranian ambassador to Sana'a witnessed an unprecedented increase in the Houthi militia’s use of drones in their operations inside the Yemeni territories in a manner that focused on reconnaissance and information gathering in conjunction with their use in military operations against the national army and resistance forces. Patriotism on many fronts.
According to NewsYemen's monitoring, the Houthi militia used drones from October 22, 2020 to February 17, (64) times, including (12) times when these drones were shot down by the National Army and the joint forces in the regions of Al-Jawf, Marib, Sanaa, Al-Dhali 'and Mocha, while one of the attacks targeted By a Houthi plane march, civilians gathered in the city of Marib, killing and wounding a number of them.
It was remarkable that the Houthi militia used drones (52) times in reconnaissance and monitoring operations, all of which were based on the joint resistance sites along the western coast.
Analysts interpreted the escalation of the Houthi militia’s monitoring and reconnaissance operations of the joint forces ’sites on the western coast that, in addition to its relationship with the attempt to target the camps and equipment of the joint forces, it is part of agendas related to Iran's efforts to carry out terrorist operations targeting international shipping in Bab al-Mandab and the Red Sea.
