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The dismantling from the inside... Why Iran and the Houthis are the biggest beneficiaries of tearing Yemen apart

الإثنين 30 مارس - آذار 2020 الساعة 02 مساءً / alislah-ye.net – Exclusive - By: Abdul Salam al-Ghadhbani

 

 

Iran has started providing support for the demands of the separation of southern Yemen from its north since 2007, it is the year in which the human rights protest movement raised by the military and civil retired associations emerged against the background of the civil war in 1994 summer, but it has turned into political demands calling for the separation of southern Yemen, due to the failure of the Ali Saleh regime in containing these demands and dealing with them, and solving the problem of the laid-off from their jobs, and compensating them for the missing years of compulsory retirement, the situation became worse when he formed what he called "associations for the defense of unity", and they consist of southern citizens, and assumed the task of assaulting the demonstrators that demanding separation.

Whereas the demands for separation of southern Yemen came almost three years after the outbreak of the war in Saada between government forces and the Houthi rebels supported by Iran. Iran has seen that the crisis of the south would reduce the pressure on its Houthi allies, and therefore it is in its interest to support the demands of separation financially and medially. Where it funded the creation of satellite channels and news websites on the Internet that espouses support for separation demands, incite to Yemeni unity. And all these satellite channels broadcast from the southern suburbs of Beirut, which is the main stronghold of the so-called Lebanese Hezbollah, and are supervised by media experts from Iraq and Lebanon, all of whom are sectarians loyal to Iran.

Knowing that the group that the Houthi militias made from were previously supported the separation of southern Yemen in 1994, and that was at the instigation of Iran. The hostile position of Iran against the Yemeni unity can be explained that it comes in the framework of the policy of dismantling and weakening the targeted countries and societies by expansion and the subversive role of Iran in the region, and harming its major opponents by tampering in their backyards.

 

- Why support separation?

The demands for the separation of the south started by some factions of the Southern Movement, since 2007, that is, nearly three years after the outbreak of fighting in Saada between government forces and the Houthi militia, they are battles that reflected the height of Iranian influence in Yemen until that time. Therefore, the timing means that Iran was and still sees that if the separation of southern Yemen is achieved, this will weaken the Yemeni government, dispel its efforts and drain its capabilities in the face of the separation demands, and therefore this will give the Houthis the opportunity to expand, spread, and control most of Yemen.

Iran also believes that Yemen remaining united will make it difficult for its Houthi followers to penetrate the Yemeni state and society, and the difficulty of passing its conspiracy scheme against Yemen and other Arab countries. The fact of Yemen remaining united means to Iran that its Houthi allies will become a minority in a large and united Yemen, and that under unity their percentage will have a very small compared to the general population, so Iran believes that its destructive project in southern Arabia cannot take place without support for the demands of separation of southern Yemen in order to reduce the pressure on the Houthis, and they can manage the willingness to take full control of various parts of the country.

 

Attention to the Yemeni file:

Iran's interest in the Yemeni file has increased in recent years, and it has been keen to exploit various gaps to enhance its gains and influence in Yemen, and it culminated that by the support of the Houthi coup militia against the legitimate authority in September 2014, where its officials boasted that Sanaa was the fourth Arab capital to fall to Iran and that the Persian Empire returned and its capital Baghdad, in reference to the control of its sectarian militias over the four Arab cities (Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus, and Sanaa).

After the Houthis took control of Sana'a, Iran intentionally provoked Saudi Arabia, as it had become surrounded by several sides, and also pushed the Houthis to provoke Saudi Arabia by threatening to invade it, and to conduct military exercises near its border with Yemen, then Saudi Arabia responded by declaring the military operation the al-Hazm Storm that confused Iran and its militias, the heroic statements suddenly disappeared, and the Arab-Iranian conflict entered a new stage of confrontation, which is still open to all possibilities, due to the division of the Arabs, and their lack of clustering in one entity with their various countries and groups against the Iranian destructive project in the region.

 

- Supporting chaos:

In the midst of this chaos cultivated and sponsored by Iran, the issue of Yemeni unity is the focus of the attention of many regional actors, given the overlapping of the files of the hot conflict in the Arab Mashreq region in recent years. In its struggle with the active Arab states, foremost of which is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And the emergence of sectarian Houthi militias in the far north of Yemen, coinciding with the lifting of some groups in southern Yemen the demands of separation, was a means of temptation for Iranian interference in Yemen, where it provided support to the Southern Movement factions demanding separation, in parallel with its support for Houthi militias with various forms of support, in preparation for their coup against the legitimate authority and control over all parts of the country.

Iranian support for the Houthis and those demanding the separation of southern Yemen continued for several years, and Tehran's relations with these parties were strengthened, until it crowned by the coup of the Houthis and their ally Ali Saleh against the legitimate authority in September 2014. It was noticeable before the coup the approach of the political and media rhetoric of the Houthis and separatists converged, and the southern suburbs in Beirut embraced the media of the two parties, all of which were funded by Iran, and managed by Iraqi and Lebanese cadres linked with Iran with sectarian ties. The harmony in the positions of the two parties (Houthis and separatists) was prominent in their stances on many national issues, especially during the National Dialogue Conference, and Iran's fingerprints were clear in those harmonious stances. This harmony has raised some of those who demanded the separation of southern Yemen at home, who abandoned some of the leaders of the separatist movement and expressed apprehension about Iranian support for the demands of separation.

 

Harvesting the fruits of cooperation:

Then the fruits of that Iranian cooperation and coordination between the two sides appeared when the Houthis and their ally Ali Saleh tried to impose their control on the interim capital of Aden, after their control of the capital Sanaa and other cities, where it was noticeable the position of some separatist leaders backed by Iran, which was describing the war in Aden is between forces of the north moved its struggles there, and they were calling on the people of the southern and eastern governorates not to participate in the war, ignoring the fact that the Houthis were aiming to control all parts of the country, but those positions were carried out under instructions from Iran, which convinced the separatists that the entry of the Houthis into the south was aimed at eliminating a specific force and not control of southern Yemen.

At a time when the freemen of Aden, along with the freemen of Yemen from all governorates, were engaged in violent armed confrontations against the Houthi militias and the forces of their ally Ali Saleh and liberating the city of Aden apart, the separatist groups were content with raising banners and separatist slogans in the liberated places. After expelling the Houthis from Aden and other southern cities, the separatist groups killed and liquidated all the military and popular resistance leaders who liberated Aden and other southern cities, and in doing so so they have taken revenge on those who expelled them from there, and imposed control over Aden and other cities with the support of the foreign parties.

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