Al-Houthi and Nasrallah meeting .. an Iranian "smile" on the rubble of Beirut and Sana'a
English - Saturday 17 September 2022 الساعة 09:29 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:
With a yellow smile, the Iranian media published, on Friday, a picture of the Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah receiving the Houthi spokesman in Yemen, Muhammad Abdul Salam, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, which witnessed on the same day the most severe scenes of chaos expressing the extent of the economic crisis that the country has been experiencing for months.
Within hours, hundreds of Lebanese stormed 7 bank headquarters to withdraw their frozen deposits due to the financial crisis that the economy is suffering from in Lebanon. As a result, the Association of Banks announced the closure of all banks in the country, for a period of 3 days.
This came two days after a young woman named Sally Hafez stormed a bank in Beirut threatening with weapons, which later turned out to be just a game, in order to claim her money that the bank had seized, with the aim of treating her sister with head cancer, in an incident that caused a sensation on the Social networking sites and media.
The economy in Lebanon is suffering from an almost complete collapse, and the US dollar has crossed the threshold of 37,000 pounds on the black market, amid an international warning of a complete collapse of the state in Lebanon, and the Arab street has been shocked in the past weeks in a way that the Lebanese crowd in front of bakeries to get the loaf in the harshest scenes expressing the crisis Lebanon, which used to be called the "Switzerland of the East", lives in.
The economic crisis that Lebanon suffers from is only a reflection of the political crises that the country has been experiencing during the last decade, which amounted to obstructing the formation of a government for about 13 months, and the crisis deepened after the parliamentary elections last May, in which Hezbollah and its allies lost the majority in it, while observers fear that The presidential vacuum will be reached by the end of current President Michel Aoun's term on October 31.
A crisis that observers unanimously blames on Hezbollah, the largest arm of Iran in the Arab region, as a result of its power with the weapons of its militias to impose its control over power in Lebanon in favor of the Iranian project of Wilayat al-Faqih, which Nasrallah has publicly bragged about more than once.
The same role and impact that the party plays in Lebanon, has been practiced by the Houthi group in Yemen, which is the newest arm of Iran in the Arab countries, since its coup against power in 2014 l and igniting the war in Yemen in March 2015 and the destruction it caused in the country on various levels, the most severe of which was on the economic side. The damage done to the Yemenis is greater than the war shells and the bullets of the battles.
The latest UN reports provide a close-up of this catastrophic situation, most notably the report issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) which issued a stern warning of the danger of starvation in the militia-controlled areas due to the acute crisis of food insecurity.
Despite the difficult humanitarian scene, the Houthi group continues to obstruct active UN and international efforts during the past months with the aim of reaching a permanent ceasefire agreement and starting a political negotiation process to bring peace and end the conflict in Yemen. Indeed, its intransigence in implementing its commitments in the current truce threatens to undermine it.
The intransigence shown by the militia of Iran’s arm is due to linking its decision to the directives it receives from Tehran. While the militia has rejected all peace and armistice initiatives since 2015, its acceptance of the armistice came early this year in implementation of an Iranian decision to calm the Yemeni file as a goodwill gesture that it presented to America for the success of the negotiations related to the nuclear agreement. In other words, the Houthi position regarding the extension of the truce and its continuation is also dependent on what Iran decides.
This is confirmed by the recent meetings of Houthi spokesman Muhammad Abd al-Salam, which come in light of the talk about a long extension of the truce for six months with the addition of other provisions. The man headed to Tehran at the weekend and met with Iranian officials, including the foreign minister, and then flew to Beirut to meet the leader of Hezbollah, who is supervising The direct control of the Houthi group, commissioned by Tehran, so that these meetings decided the group’s position on extending the armistice.
