Why it matters:
The U.S. targeting Yemen to pressure Iran underscores Tehran's growing regional influence, particularly through its support for Yemen's pro-Palestinian policies and actions. The U.S. interventionist actions just generate instability and insecurity in the West Asian region.
The big picture:
The Oval Office is coercing all nations into negotiations under threat of war, employing tactics such as stifling Voice of America, imposing tariffs, and military intervention in Yemen to subjugate others.
State of play:
United States under the new administration of Donald Trump launched an intense strike against Yemen on March 15, a heavy attack after a joint one with the U.K. in January 2024. Following the attacks that killed 53 people, Tramp announced: "Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of Iran."
What he's saying:
Trump in a post: “Iran has played ‘the innocent victim’ of rogue terrorists from which they’ve lost control, but they haven’t lost control. They’re dictating every move, giving them the weapons, supplying them with money and highly sophisticated Military equipment, and even, so-called, ‘Intelligence.’”
Trump says the U.S. is hitting Iran's property in Yemen.
Zoom in:
- Yemen's missile program began in 1972 with the Soviet Union's support, when South Yemen acquired Scud-B missiles with a 300-kilometer range, marking nearly 50 years of development.
- Before Yemen's 1990 unification, South Yemen's army, backed by the Soviet Union, obtained surface-to-surface missiles like SS-21 (80-kilometer range), and Frog-7 (similar range).
- During the 1990s and early 2000s, Yemen acquired new missiles from North Korea.
- In 2002, Hwasong-5 missiles were delivered to Yemen despite detection by the Spanish Navy, as no sanctions were in place against the Yemeni government.
- In 2014, Yemen's Ansarullah took control of Sana'a, and the country's missile capabilities were transferred to them under Abdul-Malik al-Houthi's leadership.
Zoom out:
US Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and Greg Casar are among those urging the U.S. Congress to halt arms sales to Israel after renewed Gaza attacks that have left over 400 within recent few days after Israel's breach of cease.
Over 50,000 Palestinian lives have been lost, along with hundreds of thousands of them being displaced from the Strip’s north, as the Israeli regime waged an all-out war on Gaza in October 2023, following its decades-long occupation of Palestine to completely seize Palestine.
By the numbers:
The Israeli regime, a longstanding top recipient of U.S. foreign aid, particularly military support, has faced increased scrutiny over the assistance due to its ongoing war-mongering in West Asia to pursue its expansionist policy of seizing "from the Euphrates to the Nile."
The bottom line:
As long as the U.S. pursues its unilateral policies, including support for the Israeli regime to massacre the Palestinian people and occupation of the last pieces of their homeland, neither Tehran nor Sana'a nor any other independent country will come to negotiation with the arrogant state. Tehran seeks a negotiation in which the U.S. does not appear from a bully pulpit.
The U.S. had better leave the region so that it reaches order and stability.
seyed mohammad kazemi
