(MENAFN- Arab Times) Saudi-led coalition strikes against Iran-backed Shiite rebels in Yemen's second city Aden on Thursday and ground clashes killed at least 40 Houthis and their allies, the city's deputy governor said. Residents reported non-stop air raids on rebel positions across the city amid heavy fighting.
The coalition air campaign against the rebels and allied forces loyal to former leader Ali Abdullah Saleh began on March 26 in an effort to restore UN-backed President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to power.
"Coalition forces carried out qualitative and successful operations against the rebels after coordination between the coalition leadership and the Popular Resistance Council leadership" on the ground in Aden, the southern city's deputy governor Naef al-Bakri told AFP.
Anti-rebel forces - pro-government fighters, Sunni tribes, and southern separatists - are referred to as Popular Resistance Committees.
Bakri did not give details on the operations but said warplanes destroyed a number of rebel vehicles and hit checkpoints in Aden's north and northeast, adding that Popular Resistance fighters were also "provided with shades have also failed to see how the military air strikes and the national resistance have managed to curb Iran's advance in Iraq and Syria although big battalions of Iran's Revolutionary Guards are fighting their cause.
The Iranian fighters were also preparing to enter Yemen riding on the strength of Houthi gangs. Although the intentions of some people who look at the events in Yemen through dark shades are good, I don't think good intentions have a place at this sensitive juncture, especially during decisive wars. These people fail to realize that, if Iran controls or rather have influence in Yemen, which is in the south of the Arabian Peninsula, Iran would have placed pincers around the GCC countries.
Once that happens, it would be a 'walk in the park' for Iran's military in terms of invading Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE, and that means the region would be torn apart or serve as the platform for the Muslim Brotherhood to complete the occupation. All this fits Israel's strategy without the need for Israel to shed a single drop of blood. Therefore, those advocating the idea that the war in Yemen is overdue, knowingly or unknowingly, are mouthpieces echoing Iran's voice. The 'dark glasses' people are forgetting that our countries have opted to go it alone after the Western allies gave it more than enough time to avoid a new war in the region, but it emerged they were chasing a phantom.
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