The fuel crisis is a Houthi pressure card to keep the port of Hodeidah a supply line for Tehran’s followers
English - Monday 28 March 2022 الساعة 03:49 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, Hadeel Muhammad:
The crises experienced by the citizens in the areas under the control of the terrorist Houthi militia are exacerbating, and becoming more dangerous, in light of the crisis of oil derivatives, which the militia provokes in the context of its attempt to pressure the international community, to permanently lift restrictions on the port of Hodeidah, allowing them to use the sea ports governed by the Stockholm Agreement. An outlet for smuggling and importing Iranian weapons without any oversight, under the cover of emergency oil derivatives and humanitarian aid.
The coup militia deliberately created the oil derivatives crisis, to raise its revenues from the black market, which is run by Houthi leaders, where fuel prices rose to a record high, after the militia fed the black market for oil derivatives, with the shares of official stations, in search of significant financial gains, which doubles the burden on the citizens
While the armed group prevents hundreds of fuel tankers from entering the liberated areas, through the land ports, which cover the needs of the local market in its areas of control, the terrorist group pushes its supporters to demonstrate in front of the headquarters of international organizations, in order to allow the oil derivatives ships to enter the port of Hodeidah, where International organizations have become one of the field tools that were used to support the Houthis and create continuity for their coup process, as the United Nations, in turn, is pressuring the legitimate government to allow the entry of ambulance ships to the port controlled by the militia, and the entry of billions of humanitarian aid, most of which goes to the pockets of Houthi leaders and to finance their fighting fronts.
According to informed sources, as soon as the emergency oil ships enter the port of Hodeidah, the militia will transfer them to the fuel depots that they have designated to feed the black market, which are run by large Houthi leaders.
The Iranian-backed militia prevented the entry of oil derivatives from the liberated areas, and closed the land ports, to pressure to keep fuel imports only through the port of Hodeidah.
Observers believe that the coup militia fears that allowing the entry of oil derivatives, from the legitimate areas, will lead to the closure of the Hodeidah port, and the adoption of land ports with the liberated areas, as access points for oil and food.
According to observers, the Houthi militia aims to keep the port of Hodeidah open, for the flow of military support from Iran and its networks in the region to the militia, and that the militia's use of fuel and food paper will continue to keep the ports of Hodeidah as military supply arteries for the militia.
Issam al-Mutawakil, a spokesman for the oil company affiliated with the militia, said that they are ready to eliminate the fuel crisis, provided that oil tankers are allowed to cross through the port of Hodeidah.
Activists launched a large electronic demonstration, denouncing the Houthi terrorist militia's exploitation of humanitarian aid to smuggle weapons and explosive materials.
The activists expressed their anger at the UN position, which stopped the joint forces from completing the liberation of Hodeidah governorate on humanitarian grounds, while Al-Houthi uses it today to terrorize the Yemeni people with Iranian support.
Activists, in their posts on social media platforms, denounced the contradiction in which the international community is dealing with the Yemeni crisis.
Activists pointed to the crisis of oil derivatives, which the Houthi militia has been making for weeks in its areas of control, by preventing hundreds of trucks carrying oil derivatives, coming from the liberated areas.
They said that these Houthi endeavors met with response from the UN organizations, which call for lifting restrictions on the port of Hodeidah, and propagating Houthi lies about the causes of the oil derivatives crisis, and completely ignoring their prevention of entry to hundreds of trucks loaded with oil derivatives.
The legitimate government allows ships loaded with oil derivatives to enter the militia’s control areas through the port of Hodeidah, but it has approved procedures for the entry of some oil ships, when the quantities of fuel that reach the militia’s control areas from the liberated areas through the land ports, are sufficient to meet the needs in the market, and these procedures were approved After the Houthi militia disrupted the Stockholm Agreement it signed with legitimacy under the auspices of the United Nations in 2018, which provided for the supply of Hodeidah port revenues to the Central Bank branch, and allocated them to pay the salaries of state employees, according to a 2014 disclosure, but the militia looted it 3 months after the signing of the agreement.
