The Sunni-Shia divide is playing out in our age in the Yemeni the civil war. Saudi Arabia has backed the Yemeni government, which has for quite some time now been engaged in a brutal war against Iran-supported Houthi rebels.
The Sunni-Shia jihad will increasingly become a source of torment for Iran, as the regime not only views Israel (the “little Satan”) and America (the “great Satan) as mortal enemies, but it must now contend with escalating conflict with Saudi Arabia in Yemen, as well as brewing troubles with Turkey. Earlier in the week, Sadeq Maleki, an Iranian expert on Turkish affairs, accused Sunni Turkey of dividing Iran “to form the Greater Turkistan” and “establish Neo-Ottomanism.”
Joe Biden will soon be coming to the rescue of Iran via a new nuclear deal that will amply fund the regime’s regional and global jihad activities.
“Yemeni officials: Blast at Aden airport kills 22, wounds 50,” by Ahmed al-Haj and Samy Magda, Associated Press, December 30, 2020:
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A large explosion struck the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Wednesday, shortly after a plane carrying the newly formed Cabinet landed there, security officials said. At least 22 people were killed and 50 were wounded in the blast.
The source of the explosion was not immediately clear and no group claimed responsibility for attacking the airport. No one on the government plane was hurt.
Officials later reported another explosion close to a palace in the city where the Cabinet members were transferred following the airport attack. And the Saudi-led coalition later shot down a bomb-laden drone that attempted to target the palace, according to Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV channel.
The Cabinet reshuffle was seen as a major step toward closing a dangerous rift between the government of embattled Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, and southern separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates. The Saudi-backed Yemeni government is at war with Iran-allied Houthi rebels, who control most of northern Yemen as well as the country’s capital, Sanaa.
AP footage from the scene at the airport showed members of the government delegation disembarking as the blast shook the grounds. Many ministers rushed back inside the plane or ran down the stairs, seeking shelter.
Thick smoke rose into the air from near the terminal building. Officials at the scene said they saw bodies lying on the tarmac and elsewhere at the airport.
Yemeni Communication Minister Naguib al-Awg, who was on the plane, told The Associated Press that he heard two explosions, suggesting they were drone attacks. Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed and the others were quickly whisked from the airport to Mashiq Palace.
Military and security forces sealed off the area around the the palace.
“It would have been a disaster if the plane was bombed,” al-Awg said, insisting the plane was the target of the attack as it was supposed to land earlier.
Prime Minister Saeed tweeted that he and his Cabinet were safe and unhurt. He called the explosions a “cowardly terrorist act” that was part of the war on “the Yemeni state and our great people.”…
Infidel says
How is it a unity government if the Houthis weren’t included?
At any rate, this civil war in Yemen will never end. And I don’t think Iran is key to it continuing forever: the Houthis are solid enough on their own
Atheist Kafir says
Keep on killing each other, Koranimals!
Mojdeh says
It was done by the terrorist regime of Iran via Hootis Shiaism Yemenis. So it was cordinated attacks using Iranian drones.Military bracing for attack on U.S. forces in Iraq on one year anniversary of strike that killed Iranian top general Qasem Soleimani
Military leaders are concerned there could be an attack in the coming days against U.S. troops in Iraq
‘I would tell you that the threat streams are very real,’ a senior official said, warning there is concern of a ‘complex attack’
The official also characterized the situation as the ‘most concerning that I have seen’ since Iranian General Qasem Soleimani’s killing on January 3, 2020.
The year anniversary of the drone strike that took out Soleimani is approaching
Donald Trump is returning from his Mar-a-Lago vacation early on Thursday
Some claim he could be skipping his New Year’s Even Gala, in part, because of the threat of a retaliatory attack
Phase 1 is finished , waiting for 2 and 3 .. Death to terrorist regime of Khamanie Dayoos…Pedarsag..
Means dog fathers all of them. lol… Happy new Year to all Nuking Iran is just very close due to security of it we can not let you more than this?
gravenimage says
Yemen: Iran-backed Houthis blamed as 22 killed in attack on new unity government
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There are no good guys in this mess.
Fred van de Bunt says
“Saudi-led coalition warplanes struck targets in Yemen’s Huthi-held capital Sanaa on Thursday in retaliation…
Huthi-run Masirah television said the planes hit at least 15 locations in different districts in the capital…
Coalition air strikes have killed thousands, including many civilians, over the course of the war.”
https://www.egyptindependent.com/saudi-led-coalition-strikes-at-yemen-capital-after-attacks-on-aden-blamed-on-huthis/
The coalition of “good guys” bombarding and killing civilians as a collective punishment is not good.
OLD GUY. says
And who backs Iran, Joe Biden, what an idiot. Or is it a business deal?