Saudi Arabia Fabricates Justifications To Avoid Implementation Of Stockholm’s Hodeidah Agreement
The purpose of Saudi discourse against Hodeidah, as well as the actual practices of mercenaries on the ground, as part of the continuous escalation of violations and mobilization, is to find justification for avoiding the Stockholm’s agreement and to attack the city or at least not to implement this agreement so that Yemen remains besieged.
Saudi Arabia seeks to divert attention from the crimes and siege imposed on Hodeidah and all Yemen through propaganda depicting the recent Yemeni drone strikes to be by airbases in Hodeidah.
Saudi Arabia claims there are arms smuggling from Iran to Yemen, forgetting that it is imposing a tight blockade in Hodeidah Sea and that all ships entering the city are subject to strict inspections by the Saudi and United Nations coalition at the port of Djibouti and the sea. Riyadh has been marketing this idea to the Americans and the West in an apparent effort to find political, military and media support in the context of any attack on the city of Hodeidah, which many sources say Riyadh is currently preparing for.
It is noteworthy that Riyadh worked to link developments and events that took place in the Sea of Oman, the port of Fujairah, the incident of dropping the US spy plane in the Iranian airspace, the aggressive escalation of Washington against Iran to the Stockholm agreement about Hodeidah.
The situation in Hodeidah is illustrated by statements made by Riyadh’s US special envoy to Iran, Brian Hawk, regarding what he called the Iranian threat in Bab al-Mandab and the Iranian support for Ansarallah. The Saudis also tried to focus on what they called the “Huthi threat” to navigation in the Red Sea, in addition to the intensive bombing by Saudi and United Arab Emirates forces in Hodeidah areas. Saudi Arabia may not move significantly towards the city of Hodeidah, but keeping it as it is, and not implementing the Stockholm agreement, is a serious problem, especially the dire humanitarian conditions.
The head of the National Delegation, Mohamed Abdulsalam, said that the pro-Saudi-led aggression parties back again to delaying the start of the next step in the Stockholm agreement.
He added that Saudi Arabia is currently planning to escalate their attacks and violations on the province of Hodeidah, including raids and shelling from the ground on a continuous basis. He considers the Saudi-led aggression and mercenaries fully responsible for that and what will result from the continuation of this wrong and dangerous behavior.
In the same context, Deputy Foreign Minister, Hussein Al-Ezzi called upon the United Nations, the international community, all peace-loving and supporters of the Stockholm agreement to condemn the raids carried out by the alliance of aggression in Hodeidah, pointing out that it is time to leave the shameful silence.