Oman.. From installing the Houthis in the north to supporting the Brotherhood in the south
English - Saturday 27 August 2022 الساعة 10:04 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, Jalal Muhammad:
From the early days of the Yemeni crisis, the Sultanate of Oman abandoned the policy of neutrality and entered the political scene as a third party supporting the terrorist Houthi militia along with Iran and Qatar.
During the past years, Muscat played the role of mediator acceptable to the Yemeni parties, especially the Houthis, benefiting from its stay away from the Arab coalition, and this is what gave it greater ability to move in northern Yemen, within a carefully prepared scheme in the tripartite regional conspiracy chambers on Yemen (Tehran, Doha, and Muscat).
Within seven years, Iran and Qatar, through the Sultanate of Oman, managed to establish the Houthi presence in the northern governorates. And extending him with all means of survival and steadfastness in the face of the coalition and the Yemeni government. Muscat has smuggled most of the Houthis’ deadly or influential military needs through a Syrian-Lebanese-Iranian cell, which operates in an Omani region called “Al Mazyona” near the Omani-Yemeni border. In agreement with traitors working at the Shahn border port, the smuggling and delivery process inside Yemen is supervised by a large and complex group of networks, all under the management and patronage of Sheikh Al-Huraizi, who are clearly used by the Omani and Qatari intelligence to strike the legitimacy and the coalition. Today, it is trying to get involved more through its support for cells Armed forces operating against the southern provinces by disturbing peace and enabling the Brotherhood to control those provinces. Perhaps the cells that were seized in Shabwa and other southern cities and regions, which admitted receiving Omani support and funding, are the best evidence that Muscat is implementing a plan compatible with Iran and Qatar.
An active bridge for smuggling Iranian weapons to the Houthis
Despite the continuous Omani denials of smuggling operations, many Omani debaters have asked a question: How can equipment that crossed Oman reach the Houthis from Mahra to Sana’a, through Hadramawt and Marib, where legitimacy and the coalition are located? It is an invalid question for those who know the nature of the dispersion and limited military presence of the coalition in Yemen, and the distribution of the flabby, multi-loyalty and divided Yemeni military and security forces around themselves in an array of jokes and not subject to professional evaluations and values. Against it, we can put another question, which is: How do weapons reach the heart of Europe with modern security systems and large technical and physical means of control? But how do drugs get into every alley in America's big cities?
In fact, the Omani position cannot be described as neutral. Rather, it is a multifaceted position that is governed by the interests of the state and the geopolitical situation of the Yemeni conflict.
Despite this, the reality revealed a number of networks, perhaps including in August of 2015, when the Marib Governorate authorities confiscated a shipment of weapons and ammunition that was on its way to the Houthis at one of its checkpoints. And in October of the year 2015. The governor of Ma'rib announced that the military forces had acquired Iranian military equipment (including advanced communications equipment) in the province. According to this statement, this shipment was coming by land from the Sultanate of Oman. In November of the same year, the Yemeni army dismantled an unofficial network involved in smuggling weapons and explosives. In addition to military communications equipment. It entered through the ports of al-Mahra, according to the army.
In October 2016, Western and Iranian officials reported that Tehran had increased the pace of arms transfers to the Houthis, and that most smuggling operations crossed Oman and its borders with Yemen, including via land routes.
The Omani positions towards the Houthis are a translation of its good relationship with Iran, as they are the only pro-Iranian arm in the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf region, and therefore their presence is an important issue in Iranian strategy.
Confirming the position of the Houthis in Yemen could be an essential step on the way to achieving regional balance in the Gulf and the Arab region, which means for Oman that a regional power like Saudi Arabia is not monopolizing security policies in the region.
