And Saudi Arabia announced from couple of hours ago "on Tuesday as I finished this post early Wednesday morning !!" that its military operation against Iranian-backed Houthi fighters in Yemen was over and that new operation called “Restoring Hope” was to start tonight.
The Saudi-led military coalition spokesperson Brigadier General Ahmed al-Assiri announced in his daily briefing on Tuesday that “Operation Decisive Storm” reached its goals which are protecting Saudi Arabia and the Arab countries as well destroying the Houthis’ ballistic rockets capabilities.
The 8 original goals of Operation Decisive Storm announced from three weeks ago , they did not include those goals. Operation Decisive storm aimed that a Houthi withdrawal from Sana'a and Aden as well to reinstate President Hadi.
Hadi has not returned back nor did the Houthis leave Sana'a or Aden.
I think many people will ask and discuss whether Saudi Arabia and its coalition won in that operation or not in the upcoming days. Of course the Saudis are saying that the action has not stopped yet and the kingdom will launch a new operation “Restoring Hope”.
Some Saudis say that the operation succeeded from stopping the Houthis’ advance to the Kingdom.
May be the operation stopped the Houthis indeed but the militant attacks on the Saudi borders do not ballistic missiles.
Anyhow after 3 weeks of airstrikes , the one thing we are sure of is that according to the WHO’s latest estimation not less than 994 dead and 3,487 injured in Yemen
Personally I believe the Kingdom had to stop its military operation after it began to lost huge support among the Yemeni population following the airstrikes on Sana'a in the past few days.
I also find very it very strange that the Kingdom announces that Operation Decisive Storm was over when few hours earlier today it announced that the Saudi National Guards would join the operation. Some considered it a sign that there would be a ground invasion.
Oddly enough at the same time of Spox Ahmed al-Assiri’s press conference Turkish Anadolu News agency claimed that the Ground invasion operations !!
Anyhow aside from Anadolu false news , some predicted today’s sudden change officially and Unofficially
Unofficially famous Saudi whistleblower “@Mujtahidd” said in a series of tweets on his twitter account that Saudi Arabia had talks in the past few days with Houthis “as well Iran” through Oman and that the talks reached out that the Houthis would keep their gains without claiming victory in order to reach for a political solution.
The Pro-Islamist whistleblower added that one of the signs of that agreement was appointing Khaled Bahah as Hadi’s vice-president. Bahah is accepted by the Houthis.
Officially earlier today Iranian deputy Foreign minister Hussein Amir told Iranian “Tansim” news agency that the Saudi operation would stop in Yemen.
Strangely the Supreme leader in Iran Khamenei published this post on his official instagram on Monday saying in nutshell that Saudis will be defeated in Yemen.
I do not recall that his account published something like that in Arabic before.
Few hours after the announcement of Saudi Arabia that operation decisive storm was operation , the Khameni’s account published that short statement in Arabic and English plus of course Persian slamming the Saudis comparing them to Israelis.
I just do not understand.
The latest update comes from Yemen as Houthi released Hadi's minister of defense whom they captured last March !!
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| From the Saudi Yemeni borders on April 20, 2015 "AP" |
The Saudi-led military coalition spokesperson Brigadier General Ahmed al-Assiri announced in his daily briefing on Tuesday that “Operation Decisive Storm” reached its goals which are protecting Saudi Arabia and the Arab countries as well destroying the Houthis’ ballistic rockets capabilities.
The 8 original goals of Operation Decisive Storm announced from three weeks ago , they did not include those goals. Operation Decisive storm aimed that a Houthi withdrawal from Sana'a and Aden as well to reinstate President Hadi.
Hadi has not returned back nor did the Houthis leave Sana'a or Aden.
I think many people will ask and discuss whether Saudi Arabia and its coalition won in that operation or not in the upcoming days. Of course the Saudis are saying that the action has not stopped yet and the kingdom will launch a new operation “Restoring Hope”.
Some Saudis say that the operation succeeded from stopping the Houthis’ advance to the Kingdom.
May be the operation stopped the Houthis indeed but the militant attacks on the Saudi borders do not ballistic missiles.
Anyhow after 3 weeks of airstrikes , the one thing we are sure of is that according to the WHO’s latest estimation not less than 994 dead and 3,487 injured in Yemen
Personally I believe the Kingdom had to stop its military operation after it began to lost huge support among the Yemeni population following the airstrikes on Sana'a in the past few days.
I also find very it very strange that the Kingdom announces that Operation Decisive Storm was over when few hours earlier today it announced that the Saudi National Guards would join the operation. Some considered it a sign that there would be a ground invasion.
Oddly enough at the same time of Spox Ahmed al-Assiri’s press conference Turkish Anadolu News agency claimed that the Ground invasion operations !!
Anyhow aside from Anadolu false news , some predicted today’s sudden change officially and Unofficially
Unofficially famous Saudi whistleblower “@Mujtahidd” said in a series of tweets on his twitter account that Saudi Arabia had talks in the past few days with Houthis “as well Iran” through Oman and that the talks reached out that the Houthis would keep their gains without claiming victory in order to reach for a political solution.
The Pro-Islamist whistleblower added that one of the signs of that agreement was appointing Khaled Bahah as Hadi’s vice-president. Bahah is accepted by the Houthis.
Officially earlier today Iranian deputy Foreign minister Hussein Amir told Iranian “Tansim” news agency that the Saudi operation would stop in Yemen.
Strangely the Supreme leader in Iran Khamenei published this post on his official instagram on Monday saying in nutshell that Saudis will be defeated in Yemen.
I do not recall that his account published something like that in Arabic before.
Few hours after the announcement of Saudi Arabia that operation decisive storm was operation , the Khameni’s account published that short statement in Arabic and English plus of course Persian slamming the Saudis comparing them to Israelis.
I just do not understand.
The latest update comes from Yemen as Houthi released Hadi's minister of defense whom they captured last March !!