Al-Houthi review and Tehran's plan to turn Hodeidah into a military base
English - Sunday 04 September 2022 الساعة 10:07 am
Aden, NewsYemen, Hadeel Muhammad:
Al-Houthi’s military review in Hodeidah, in which the Tehran-backed militia revealed that it possessed new Iranian missiles, in addition to naval mines and drones, came as confirmation of the Iranian arm’s insistence on its defiance of the international community, and its continued violation of the terms of the UN armistice and the Stockholm Agreement, which stopped the United Nations United under which to complete the liberation of the city.
This review proved to the world Iran's plans and desire to take the Red Sea as a battlefield from Hodeidah, and this was confirmed by the militia through the head of its revolutionary council, Mahdi al-Mashat, who said that their militias "are capable of striking any point in the Red Sea."
The threats of the Iranian arm came from within the city of Hodeidah, confirming the fact that the coastal governorate and its vital ports had turned into an advanced Iranian military base, to control the security of the Red Sea, threaten international navigation and destabilize the region. The presence in the Red Sea was one of the goals that Tehran sought to achieve, and a focal point. Important in its strategy with its desire to control the most important international corridors. Therefore, Iran worked to achieve its ambitions to support its terrorist tools in Yemen, represented by the Houthi militia to implement its plans to control the vital port on the Red Sea.
Over the past years, Iran has sought, through its Houthi tails, to consolidate its control over Hodeidah, to obtain an important sea port on the Red Sea, which secures the Houthis' reception of Iranian weapons easily, as well as imposing a kind of control over the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
With the Houthi invasion of Hodeidah Governorate in October 2014, Iran achieved one of its goals, in being present in the Red Sea, which for Tehran is a presence in the flanks of the Gulf, and gives it a greater grip on Arab national security.
The Iranian arm in Yemen uses the sea ports governed by the Stockholm Agreement to smuggle and bring in Iranian weapons without any control, after lifting restrictions on the ports of Hodeidah, in accordance with the terms of the UN armistice that the Houthis continue to violate every day.
Activist Ahmed Sahari believes that the military parade by Iran's terrorist arm in an important strategic area is a declaration of war and not just a show, noting that the United Nations mission in Hodeidah is not concerned with the security of Yemen or the region.
Political analyst Mustafa Naji al-Jabzi says that al-Houthi realized the psychology of those dealing with him regionally and internationally and understood that the truce is a global need and not one of his needs as long as he does not care about people.
Al-Jabzi refers to a number of points about the Houthi military parade in Hodeidah:
First, al-Houthi exaggerated in displaying his power to prove his ability to threaten security and maritime security with naval mines and boats until the ransom amount that will be offered to him increases.
Secondly, he dealt with the temptations of a truce as a ransom that he deserved with his arrogance and the more arrogant he becam his satisfaction increased. His greed increased, and he did not stop violating the truce, as is the case in Taiz and Ma'rib.
Third, Al-Houthi suffers from a social rejection of him in his areas of influence, which is mainly reflected in human rights uprisings due to excessive violence and the theft of rights and property, the last of which is in Hamedan. He works to impose or renew his control with crowds and equipment that he drags from one governorate to another thanks to the armistice and is certain that he will not be attacked.
These dazzling crowds bear signs of weakness, because they only took place with the armistice, and his forces were dispersed without a central mass. And because it is the reverse evidence of weak control. Otherwise, what is the need to dazzle with offers if you meet with voluntary acceptance and submission based on legitimacy
Fourthly, Al-Houthi raises the ceiling of the challenge to the international community by relying on deceptive temporary international political facts rooted in the complex Iranian-American nuclear understandings stage in their last stage of reaching or not reaching a new agreement on the one hand. And the disturbance of the Iranian grip in Iraq on the other hand.
Al-Jabzi adds: Al-Houthi is not an international partner whose interests push him to slow down. Here he is placing himself in a narrow and confined axis, which is the axis of Iran and those who revolve in its orbit. This axis did not achieve strategic gains, as some imagine, but rather turns into a cumbersome tool of blackmail for the countries involved in it in favor of the Iranian project. Iran, as a whole, is a confined and isolated country, and technically it is declining every day in terms of development levels and its comprehensive indicators.
Activist Osama Al-Zoumi considered the coup’s parade just a gag, recalling the arrival of the joint forces in 2018 the walls of the city of Hodeidah and bypassing the stage of performances in which the Houthis held their parade on Thursday, adding that in those moments and before that, all the coup pawns had fled from the city’s streets, and the social media circulated their photos carrying luggage. And grain in preparation for no return and long hiding in Saada.
As for the activist Ali Nasser, he says that whoever knows the truth about Al-Houthi, and the extent of his real size, knows and understands the reality of the military parade that took place in Hodeidah and the parades before it in Sanaa and elsewhere, and also understands how those forces were assembled and Prepared for review.
Photographer Shujae Al-Mudhaffar mocks Al-Houthi's review and says: Don't these shows deceive you? Are these specialty reviews only? As for the fighters of the Houthi gang, all of them plunder from the streets and take them out of prisons, some by temptation and some by intimidation?
He adds: If these were fighters, then I challenge them to drop a hill. If they do, then I am ready for the gallows? Because I am an expert in them for eight years, can I monitor them with my cameras?
The United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement, "UNMHA", accused the armed group of violating the Hodeidah Agreement, which was signed in the Swedish capital Stockholm in 2018, after it staged a military parade in Hodeidah.
The Sweden agreement included the cessation of military operations and the redeployment of forces from the city of Hodeidah and the governorate ports (Hodeidah - Saleef - and Ras Issa), but the agreement faltered, and the Houthis are still stationed in the city and ports to this day.
