Marib ... Between the "delusions" of the Houthi victory and the bet on the legitimacy of the "illusion"
English - Saturday 22 May 2021 الساعة 09:23 am
Marib, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
On the 30th of Shaaban, the Iranian Mehr News Agency promised that the city of Marib would fall into the hands of the Houthi militia, with a provocative article by a Houthi member titled "Let's fast tomorrow in Marib and break our dates."
With this article, Iran had promised to crush the Houthi opponents in Marib and humiliate them, and that "Marib will shine with a sun other than the sun of Arada, Islah, ISIS, Al Qaeda and the Satanic alliance," and that their fate will be "lost in the desert without food or water."
This speech embodied the height of the Iranian Houthi arrogance about the inevitability of the fall of Ma'rib, the overturning of the equation militarily and politically in Yemen, and entering any upcoming settlement with strong negotiating cards.
Today, after 40 days, the Yemeni writer Muhammad Jumaih reminds the Iranian regime and informing it of this warning, directing a question to the Iranian agency: How did the taste of dates in the country of the Sabaeans ?, confirming that “after Ramadan it became clear that the Iranians did break their fast, but on the coals of Ma'rib they do not pass it.”
Nearly four months have passed since the Houthi movement announced the launch of its battle towards the city of Marib, with a religious speech in early February, through the words of its leader, Muhammad Al-Bukhaiti, who claimed that there was a "divine directive to liberate Marib.
Al-Bakhiti said at the time that "the Yemeni people are fighting a decisive battle that will result in the fate of the nation, and the Marib front is the separating front that will determine the fate of this battle." And by political translation, the Yemeni people here are the Houthi group, and what the outcome of the battle for Marib will determine is the fate of the group and its future in case the pressures succeed International in pushing the parties to the conflict in Yemen to the negotiating table.
However, the results were not desired by the Houthis, so there was no significant breakthrough achieved on the fronts in the vicinity of the city of Marib, rather it failed to return to the sites it occupied before the start of Decisive Storm, despite the huge human bill presented by the Houthi during the last period, which is estimated by media sources It exceeded 3 thousand dead, including dozens of leaders.
The illusions of Al-Houthi and Iran have evaporated in reaching the city of Marib, not reflecting that things are reassuring on the other side, in light of the sufficiency of the legitimate forces and the tribes supporting them in the defense position, which does not give any guarantee of the strength of the situation on the ground, and makes the fate of Marib dependent on the choices of the Houthis.
The performance of the legitimacy and its handling of the situation did not differ much from what has been known since the beginning of the war six years ago, and by tracking and monitoring its military media during the past days, the image of the legitimacy management of the battle to defend Marib becomes clear through "illusion" and "illusion" in terms of statements, movements, forces and names.
The latest news about the battles on the army’s official website talks about the “seventh district commander and the mayor of the capital inspecting the outposts at the Kassara front, west of Ma'rib,” a visit by the commander of a “fake” region that ended with the fall of its only front, which is a front that has all its camps and weapons accompanied by a “fake” secretary to the capital. Still in the grip of the Houthi militia.
A few days earlier, the Army’s website published a news on the 10th of this month about “the commander of the Ibb Axis, Brigadier General Ahmed Al-Bahsh, chaired a meeting in Ma'rib with the leaders of the brigades in the Axis to discuss developments and upcoming plans for the Axis,” which is one of the fictitious formations that the Brotherhood created within the Legitimacy Army And it is still under media use despite the fall of the Oud fronts and the fall of the Houthi militia, and the STC forces taking over there.
And at the beginning of this month, the Ministry of Defense was discussing the mechanisms of mobilization and support to confront the Iranian project with the governors of the governorates of Ma'rib, Al-Jawf, Al-Bayda and Rayma, which are governorates either with a generous Houthi grip or most of them have come under his control, such as Al-Jawf and Al-Bayda. As for Marib, only the city and the areas of the Murad tribe in the south remain.
Despite this, local authorities ’leaderships in these governorates announced the“ launch of a new phase of mobilization and support to supplement the fronts and join the camps to support the National Army in its war against the Iranian project in Yemen. ”
In addition to the moves with "fake" tools, the leaders of the "fake" legitimacy army had "fake" statements that flipped the conversation about the battle of Sanaa and its recovery from the Houthi grip, to cover up the fact that the battles approached the city of Marib.
At a distance of only 15 kilometers from the outskirts of the city of Ma'rib and more than 150 kilometers from Sanaa, the Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Muhammad Al-Maqdashi, was "inspecting the progress of combat operations," according to the army's official website, to confirm that "the Yemeni people, their armed forces and their legitimate leadership will not accept the transfer of Sanaa and all of Yemen." Into a Persian colony. "
With the exception of the prime minister's short visit to Marib at the beginning of this month, the legitimacy leadership, which the defense minister speaks enthusiastically about in his previous statement, represented by President Hadi and his deputy Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar during 4 months of fighting, was content with following it through phone calls from period to period and in the same monotonous phrases that It talks about steadfastness and victories at the same time.
