The defeats of Shabwa and Marib are behind the Houthi meetings in Muscat and Sana'a
English - Monday 14 February 2022 الساعة 08:27 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:
In conjunction with the meetings of the spokesman of the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, and the head of its negotiating delegation, Muhammad Abdul Salam, with the UN envoy and officials of the European Union in the Omani capital, Muscat, the militia leaders were holding an internal meeting with the leaders of the Sana’a Conference under the name of fortifying the home front and mobilizing the fronts.
Diplomatic sources close to the Houthi militia revealed to NewsYemen that the internal and external meetings held by the militias were an expected result of the military failures that the militias suffered on several fronts, most notably the Shabwa Front, which was liberated from the militias’ control and the defeats in some areas of Marib, as well as their defeats in the Haradh area in Hajjah Governorate.
The militia spokesman had announced his meeting with the Director-General of the Middle East region and the official of the Yemen and Gulf office in the European Union, days after his meeting with the UN envoy Hans Grundberg and his deputy, after a period of refusal by the militia spokesman and his leaders to meet the new UN envoy in the Omani capital, Muscat.
According to the sources, the militias have, over the past period, refused to receive the UN envoy or any UN or international officials on the pretext that they want to accept their condition to separate the humanitarian file from the rest of the files and the necessity of understanding about it before engaging in any political negotiations, which is the justification that the militias used to cover the fact that their refusal to meet The reason was its quest to control Marib, which it believed was close to achieving victory and controlling it, and putting everyone, led by the Arab coalition and the United Nations, before the fait accompli.
According to the sources, the size of the equipment and preparations that the militias arranged for them and the number of advances and attacks they carried out were fictitious, especially since the battle of Marib has been prepared by the Houthi militias for a long time. God, who referred to the battle of Marib in more than one speech, and it is the same trend that appeared in the conversations and statements of Iranian officials, and the coverage of the Iranian and pro-Iranian media, as they all considered the fall of Marib in the hands of the Houthis a matter of time, and that the victory of the militias in Marib would change the course of the entire battle.
The sources said: The defeat that the militias received on more than one front was the reason for their retraction from their positions regarding the meeting with the Swedish UN envoy to Yemen Hans Gundberg and other international officials. It should by presenting demands to reduce its allegation of a military escalation by the coalition and the legitimate forces against it on more than one front.
In the same context, the sources indicated that the meeting held by the leaders of the Houthi militias in Sanaa with leaders from the Sana’a conference under the name “Fortification of the Home Front and the Mobilization of the Fronts,” last Wednesday, came in the context of the militias’ efforts to cover up the size of the field and military defeats they suffered, and an attempt to persuade the leaders of The Sana’a Conference to assist it in the process of mobilizing fighters to the fronts, especially since it is now facing many obstacles in the path of its ability to persuade citizens to send fighters to the fronts in light of the increasing human losses, especially in the battles of Marib, Shabwa and Haradh.
The sources confirmed that the militia leaders asked the Sana’a conference to inform the heads of its branches in the governorates to respond to the militia supervisors and go out with them on field visits for the mobilization operations of fighters and the need to convince the conference’s followers and rules to mobilize fighters and send them to the fronts under the pretext of defending the homeland and intimidating them that any defeat for the Houthi militia will be a victory Legitimacy and the national forces resisting al-Houthi will have negative repercussions on the congressmen in the militia-controlled areas.
The sources indicated that the militia leaders guaranteed their request from the leaders of the Sana’a conference with veiled threats that their failure to help mobilize fighters would have dire consequences for the future of the partnership between the two parties within the framework of the government, and for the future presence of the party and its leaders in Sana’a.
