Al-Houthi abuses former employees of the Washington embassy in Sana'a
English - Sunday 27 February 2022 الساعة 05:52 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, a special report:
While the US State Department is content with media condemnation, the number of Yemenis kidnapped by Iran's arm has increased on the accusation that they were former employees of the US Embassy in Sana'a.
The Iranian Houthi authorities arrested the assistant head of the media attaché at the US Embassy in Sana'a, Abd al-Rahman Saif al-Sharabi, on Monday, February 21st.
A month ago, the Houthi security services arrested three former US embassy employees, before releasing two of them and keeping the third employee in detention.
The US official statements are content with condemnation, and they have not applied any pressure, and say that the Houthi militia has arrested dozens of Yemeni employees who have been working in its embassy in Sana'a since 2015, and Yemeni citizens with US citizenship.
Sources close to the families of the detainees said that their sons were arrested without charge despite the end of their work with the closure of the embassy. The arrests came after a meeting between Houthi leaders and the US special envoy to Yemen, Mr. Tim Lenderking in the Omani capital, Muscat.
The former employees of the embassy did not enjoy any human rights solidarity, although they preferred to stay in their homes in Sana’a without practicing any jobs or activities worthy of arrest, and the Houthi militia contented itself with inciting against them as employees with America without any accusations due.
On the tenth of November last year 2021, Houthi elements opened the headquarters of the US embassy in Sanaa, located on "Sheraton Street", and looted the embassy's equipment and contents.
In parallel, it arrested three former Yemeni embassy employees: Abdel Moeen Azzan, a former embassy employee who was the MBI coordinator in Sana'a, and his two colleagues Jamil Ismail, the economic official at the embassy, and Hisham Al-Wazir, an employee of the US Agency for Development, which is the arm of the US Agency for Development.
The developmental development of the US State Department, weeks after it arrested 22 other employees, most of whom work as part of the security guard staff that has been guarding the embassy complex.
Diplomatic sources in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Houthi militia authority told NewsYemen: The Houthis' resort to arresting Yemeni citizens on the pretext that they are employees of the Washington embassy or in any embassy of any other country in Yemen is a rejected and condemned method and has nothing to do with diplomatic relations between peoples and countries.
The sources added: But the method and method of the Houthi militia is a systematic imitation of the methods of the Iranian regime in storming foreign embassies, especially the US embassy, and kidnapping and arresting foreign citizens, or Iranian citizens who hold foreign nationalities, and using this method in deceptive mobilization of its rules.
The sources concluded by pointing out that the Houthi militia’s behavior and the way it blackmailed the Americans confirms the truth of the mistakes made by the administration of current US President Joe Biden, who hastened to cancel the designation of the Houthi militia as a terrorist organization, which was approved by the administration of former President Donald Trump, noting that the current administration’s approach is based on imposing Sanctions against Houthi leaders personally, or even imposing sanctions on companies that finance or facilitate Houthi financing, is useless and cannot achieve any success on them, as is the case with US sanctions against the Iranian regime.
It is worth noting that the Houthi militia, after its coup against the authority and its control over state institutions on September 21, 2014, proceeded to storm the headquarters of Arab and foreign embassies after it had placed armed affiliated with it to guard the headquarters of these embassies, which closed their doors after that coup, with the exception of the Embassy of the Russian Federation, which continued to practice It worked before it was forced to close its door and evacuate all its Russian diplomats and employees following the martyrdom of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh at the hands of the Houthi militias after he declared the uprising against them on December 2, 2017.
