Huthi unprecedented escalation against Saudi Arabia .. Motives and objectives

Mohammed Abdul Malik - Al Jazeera Net

Once again, the Houthis return to target vital Saudi facilities. In a remarkable escalation this time, seven planes bombed Saudi Aramco's pipelines, oil pumping lines and other sites under the name of the "Great Military Operation".

Saudi Arabia's energy minister, Khalid al-Falih, said on Tuesday that two pumping stations for the East-West pipeline, which carries oil from the Eastern Province to the port of Yanbu on the west coast, were attacked by drone-launched drone aircraft.

The leader of the political council of the Houthi group Mohammed al-Bekhiti said in a phone call that the continuation of the Saudi-UAE alliance in the air strikes on the border fronts and the provinces of Hajjah and al-Dhalia, For the Houthis to respond in this way.

Al-Bukhaiti pointed out that this process came after the deadline of the initiative announced by the former leader Muhammad Ali al-Huthi, and provides for the cessation of missile strikes and aircraft in the depth of Saudi Arabia and the UAE in exchange for the suspension of the coalition air raids.

Al-Bukhiti explained that they hoped the coalition would respond and stop bombing the Yemenis, but there was no positive interaction.

"We are preparing to carry out more strikes, which may increase in number and expand to other vital targets, so that Saudi Arabia will go to peace and accept a comprehensive and honorable solution that guarantees the dignity, safety and security of all," al-Bakhiti told al-Jazeera.

The spokesman for the al-Huthi group, Mohamed Abdel Salam, said that the attacks were a response to the continuation of the aggression. He said that the Yemeni people have no choice but to defend themselves with all force and to confront the aggression of the aggression and organized international terrorism.

Economic objectives
The military spokesman for the forces of Houthi, Yahya Sariyah, said that the planes achieved their targets and targeted the pumping station near Yanbu and led to a complete stop of pumping. Aramco said that stopping the pumping of oil in the damaged pipeline was a precautionary measure. Oil and gas and not affected by the accident.

The military spokesman of the group that this comes a few days after the leader of the group, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, threatened sensitive and extraordinary strikes aimed at the "enemy economy", namely Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

The operation came a day after the UAE announced that four merchant ships were involved in subversive operations near the port of Fujairah, two of them flying Saudi flag, prompting some to accuse Iran or its "agents" of carrying out these successive attacks.

Political analysts told Al-Jazeera Net that there is coordination between the Huthis and Iran to deliver clear messages to America and the region that Iran is capable of mixing the cards, and then sit on the table to negotiate or threaten a wider war.

He described the Yemeni political analyst Abdul Nasser depositor this escalation seriously and considered it a departure from the context of the war in Yemen, and added to the island Net that the Houthis are not in their interest to escalate as they try to market themselves that they made concessions by withdrawing from the ports of Hodeidah.

The depositor said that the Houthis' actions would confirm the charges as proxies to Iran and work within its agenda, but would at the same time confirm that the Houthis had developed military capabilities and that the military campaign had failed.