An Egyptian political analyst underlined that a fate similar to the executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is envisaged for the Saudi Royal family.
“We resolutely ask Saudi Arabia and its (Arab) allies to immediately resort to a political solution (for a crisis in Yemen) and to disobey the US that encouraged Saddam Hussein in war with Iran and Kuwait… ,” Saeed al-Lavandi, political expert of Al-Ahram Political and Strategic Studies Center in Cairo, told FNA on Monday.
He recalled that US eventually ceased supporting the former Iraqi dictator and executed him, and said, “It seems that the US has the same plan for Saudi Arabia that will eventually lead to the Al Saud’s collapse.”
The political analyst blasted the continued Saudi-led aggression against Yemen.
He underlined that Israel is benefiting the most from the ongoing regional crises, “Israel never dreamt to wreak havoc on the region without even a bullet fired from its soldiers’ guns… .”
In relevant remarks on May 23, a Kyrgyz political expert said that Saudi Arabia’s continued airstrikes on Yemen will result in the fall of the Al Saud regime.
“Riyadh cannot survive the negative outcomes of this, and prolonging the clashes will be harmful to Saudi Arabia because its consequences for Saudi Arabia will be evident,” Qader Malekov, also head of Religion, Law and Politics Research Center in Bishkek, told FNA.
He noted that Riyadh’s attack on Yemen was meant to disrupt the trend of Iran-world powers nuclear talks, and said, “Saudi Arabia’s regional policies correspond to Israel’s policies; both regimes have had close cooperation in Middle East’s crises in recent years.”
In interesting remarks in April, a former Lebanese minister said the Saudi-led aggression against Yemen shares many similarities with the Israeli regime’s attacks on the Palestinians in Gaza.
“The Saudi regime’s aggression against Yemen, killing the women and children and destruction of Yemen’s infrastructures is similar to the Zionist regime’s aggression against Gaza and Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia seeks to take Yemen back to decades ago,” Wiam Wahhab, also the leader of the Lebanese Towhid Movement, told FNA.
Yet, he stressed that Riyadh and Tel Aviv share other commonalities as well, including their desire to destroy Syria, supporting the Takfiri terrorism and confronting Iran which is the most important supporter of the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance groups.
On the results of the Saudi-led military strikes against Yemen, Wahhab said, “Undoubtedly, Saudi Arabia will experience defeat and failure but it (the Saudi aggression) will exacerbate the sectarian and Takfiri crisis in the region.”
The Yemeni army and tribal forces attacked military positions in Najran, in Southeastern Saudi Arabia, near the two countries’ borders on Monday.
The Yemeni forces attacked the Saudi army’s base in al-Sharafa region in Najran province, the Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television quoted a Yemeni military source as saying.
There have yet been no immediate report on the number of the casualties inflicted on the Saudi forces.
On Sunday, media reports said that the Saudis, including Royal family members, are in a rush to flee the country after Yemen’s first Scud missile hit a military airbase in Saudi Arabia’s South on Saturday.
“The Saudi residents of Khamees al-Mushait are waiting in a several-kilometer-long trail of cars to flee after their city was hit by Yemeni Scud missiles,” the Arabic-language Sa’ada Press news website reported.
The Riyadh-based Ahrar al-Hejaz news website also reported that many Saudi princes have fled to western countries, specially France and Britain, after consecutive defeats of King Salman’s army and plots, adding that some other princes are running away in anticipation of trial and punishment due to their opposition to the king’s war on Yemen.
Also yesterday, the media reports said that the Yemeni troops showed that Riyadh is within their reach after they fired a Scud missile on Saturday.
The London-based Arabic daily Rai al-Youm reported that as the UN-backed peace talks are near, firing of Scud missiles by the Yemeni forces means a shift in the balance of power in the crisis in Yemen.
Military analysts believe that the Scud missiles used by the Yemeni army and popular forces against Saudi Arabia are reminiscent of the missiles used by the Hezbollah and Hamas resistance movements against Israel; the missiles which reached deep inside Israel.
The daily noted that Saudi Arabia is also aware of the threat of the Scud missiles and the Saudi regime knows that if they can hit al-Khamees, Shamit and Abha as well as Jizan, they can also reach deep inside Saudi Arabia and cause serious threat to that country.
On Saturday, the Yemeni army fired a Scud missile into Saudi Arabia, forcing the monarchy’s officials to cancel all Jizan and Abha flights.
According to media reports, the missile was fired early Saturday morning at the Saudi regime’s largest air force base located in the city of Khamees al-Mushait in the kingdom’s Southwest.