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Iran ships won’t be allowed to enter Yemen territorial water: Saudi Gen.

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Ahmed-Asiri, Saudi Brigadier General
Ahmed-Asiri, Saudi Brigadier General

Iranian ships have the right to be present in international waters, but won’t be allowed to enter Yemeni territorial waters.

Saudi Arabian Brig. Gen. Ahmad Al-Assiri, consultant in the defense minister’s office, made those remarks in a reference to Iran’s decision to send two warships to the Gulf of Aden.

Iran said the warships were sent there to protect Iranian shipping.

During his daily military briefing on Operation Decisive Storm, Al-Assiri said the coalition reserved the right to respond to any attempt by Iran to arm Houthis.

Al-Assiri said Yemen needed to end the Houthi coup in order to fight Al-Qaeda militants.

According to Al-Assiri, there are confirmed reports that a large number of Houthis and pro-Saleh soldiers are surrendering to the Popular Committees.

He said those who are surrendering should be dealt with according to the international law and they shouldn’t be harmed.

Al-Assiri said Iran has not evacuated any of its citizens from Yemen because they are involved in “training and arming” the Houthis.

He added: “A lot of countries have requested evacuation for their citizens and successfully moved them out of Yemen. Those Iranians planning to remain in the country would face the same fate as the Houthis and their supporters.”

He said local tribes have joined Yemeni soldiers to fight against the rebels. Many more would do so “within hours,” he said.

Al-Assiri said air raids have been precise. The coalition has in particular targeted Khalid Camp and Hamza Camp, which were used to store weapons for the rebels. “We are very careful since we do not want to harm innocent citizens close to our targeted areas,” he said.

He said the Yemeni Army has closed off its sea borders to prevent foreign countries from smuggling weapons to the Houthis. The airfields in Yemen are also under the control of the Yemeni Army.

Arab News

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14 responses to “Iran ships won’t be allowed to enter Yemen territorial water: Saudi Gen.”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Protect Iranian shipping? Oh … park them both just off Somalia then. :-)))

  2. Rascal Avatar
    Rascal

    There is no way possible for Iran to pull off a win from Yemen.
    Sneaking around and smuggling weapons to disgruntle minority religious groups may have worked in Lebanon (for awhile) but the sneaky type of wars Iran fights, are not a recipe for success. The fact that Iran does not admit to anything no matter how obvious, destroys their credibility.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      They had some credibility?

      1. Rascal Avatar
        Rascal

        good point !!
        Their attempt at credibility, could be more accurate.

    2. wargame1 Avatar
      wargame1

      Iran has lots of “pilgrims” willing to go to Yemen to worship some grave

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        But wargame … apparently the pilgrims didn’t read the news, OR the flight regulations. 😉

  3. Reasonableman Avatar
    Reasonableman

    The iranians grew some balls after pakistan backed out.
    Pakis will be threatened if this war is won or even lost with 20% shia population, the aggression will turn towards them and the nuclear power plant.

    It’s okay though indonesia has the ability to now produce their own aircraft and ships to aid pakistan when that happens.

    1. wargame1 Avatar
      wargame1

      The Paki politics is influenced by the minority shia. Julfikar Ali Bhutto was a Shia and he imported a Iranian shia wife from Ispahan i.e. Nusrat Bhutto and their Daughter Benzir Bhutto married another Shia President of Paki named Asif Ali Zardari. These people were on the top of the leadership and many of the Shia are behind them. Iran tried to sneak in to every sunni majority country by installing their Shia stooges. In Turkey the Alawites are also very powerful in the military. Same goes to Yemen as Ali Alabala Saleh (A shia) quietly recruited all the Shias in the top leadership of the Army. We now know this ugly plan of Iran. They were successful applying their taqyaa but they are exposed in many places already.

      1. "°√°" Avatar
        “°√°”

        There are plenty of examples not only in Pakistan but also in other countries, e.g., Afghanistan, Egypt and Palestine, which show that Iranian regime has been using Shia Muslims as a consumable item or canon fodder to promote its specific foreign policy agendas, with little consideration to the immediate interests of local Shia community in the respective country.

        For example, some Shia ulama of Pakistan blindly follow Iran’s foreign policy by supporting the Hamas in Palestine, Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Assad in Syria, Houthis in Yemen, ….

        Let’s start with a brief historical context of Shia activism in Pakistan in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution.

        After the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran led by Grand Ayatollah Khomeini, some Pakistani Shia religious scholars misled the Iranian Ayatollahs and the Iranian government by ensuring them that a pro-Iran (or pro-Shia) Islamic revolution in Pakistan was not very far. The formation of the Tehrik-e-Nafaz-e-Fiqah-e-Jafaria (TNFJ) in Pakistan in 1979. In the subsequent years, TNFJ (later renamed as TJP) became tightly aligned with Iran’s ruling clergy, its controversial notion of the Vilayat-e-Faqih (the political authority of an Ayatollah) and Iranian government’s foreign policy goals, and in that process sacrificed the very interests of Pakistan’s Shia community.

        TNFJ (later TJP) kept dreaming of bringing about a pro-Shia Islamic revolution in Pakistan in support of Iran’s revolution.

        A pro-Shia revolution in Pakistan was never a possibility; the entire idea reflected an immature mindset which had little understanding of the demographics and religio-political situation in Pakistan. While the notion of an Islamic revolution was apparently intended to promote Iran’s or Shias’ interest in Pakistan and the region, the actual effect was completely opposite.

        If Pakistan’s Shia ulama had any better sense of the entire situation, they would have dissociated themselves from an Iranian agenda and, instead of wasting their energies on an impossible pro-Shia Islamic revolution, would have struggled for a democratic, progressive Pakistan, separating religion from the state. Contrary to what some Sunni and Shia mullahs dishonestly claim, secularism is not equal to la-deeniat (faithlessness), it rather indicates that faith is each individual’s private matter which is of no concern to a state.

        In this entire process (pursuit of an imaginary Islamic revolution in Pakistan), Shia Muslims of Pakistan were and are still exposed to unnecessary threat in promoting Iranian foreign policy agenda. While urban elite Shias (a tiny minority) remain unharmed because of their class and tight alignment with Pakistan’s military establishment.

        Pakistan’s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was an Ismaili by birth and a Twelver Shia by confession, though not a religiously observant man. He had studied at the Inns of Court in London and was better versed in English law than in Shia jurisprudence, was never seen at an Ashoura procession, and favored a wardrobe that often smacked as much of Savile Row as of South Asia. Yet in so far as he was Muslim and a spokesman for Muslim nationalism, he was as a Shia. His coreligionists played an important role in his movement, and over the years many of Pakistan’s leaders were Shias, including one the country’s first governor-generals, three of its first prime ministers, two of its military leaders (Generals Iskandar Mirza and Yahya Khan), and many other of its leading public officials, landowners, industrialists, artists, and intellectuals. Two later prime ministers, the ill-fated Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and his Radcliffe-educated, currently exiled daughter, Benazir Bhutto, were also Shia. Feeling the wind shift in the 1990s, Benazir styled herself a Sunni, but her Iranian mother, her husband from a big Shia landowning family, and her father’s name, the name of Ali’s twin-bladed sword, make her Shia roots quite visible. In a way, Benazir’s self-reinvention as a Sunni tells the tale of how secular nationalism’s once solid-seeming promise has given way like a rotten plank beneath the feet of contemporary Pakistan’s beleaguered Shia minority.

        Benazir’s father came from a family of large Shia landowners who could afford to send him for schooling to the University of California at Berkeley and to Oxford. He cut a dashing figure. Ambitious, intelligent, and secular, he was a brilliant speaker, with the ability, it is said, to make a crowd of a million people dance and then cry. His oratory manipulated public emotion as the best of Shia preachers could, and his call for social justice resonated with Shia values. His party’s flag conveniently displayed the colors of Shiism: black, red, and green. Although he never openly flaunted his Shia background, he commanded the loyalty of Pakistan’s Shia multitudes, around a fifth of the population. What he lacked in the area of regular religious observance he made up for with his zeal for Sufi saints and shrines, especially that of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, the widely popular Sufi saint of Shia extraction whose tomb is a major shrine in southern Pakistan.

        1. wargame1 Avatar
          wargame1

          These Shia traitors in Pakistan killed a lot of sunni in the then East Pakistan (Now Bangladesh) and divided the country in favor of India in 1971. Now we can clearly see their evil plot. That Julfikar Ali bhutto and his bull dog Shia Yahia Khan massacred the sunnis in Bangladesh and consequently weakened both Bangladesh and Pakistan against India. This current situation in the middle East will sort out these Taqyaa Shia from the Sunnis.

    2. wargame1 Avatar
      wargame1

      Irans goal is to destabilize Saudi Arabia and invade the oil fields. They have been plotting and planning for years.

      1. Caribbean Avatar
        Caribbean

        I’d hope it’s true my dream will come through

        1. wargame1 Avatar
          wargame1

          Your intial dream may come true as I have read about it in the prophesy but you wont like the part Two of that dream

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