Is the US really backing Saudi Arabia against “Ansar Allah”?

Why is it deploying thousands of soldiers, aircraft, and rockets to Tel Aviv? Is the Great War approaching? And how will Iran respond?

The “New York Times,” which is close to the decision-makers in the US administration, has confirmed that President Donald Trump has approved military and intelligence intervention to support the Saudi side and its allies in the currently escalating Yemeni war against the Houthi movement. If the report is true—and it appears to be, given what is happening on the battlefields—this step could accelerate a comprehensive military confrontation between Iran and the United States.

This notion is supported by reports of so-called Yemeni legitimacy troops making advances on the western coast, recapturing vital places such as the island of Mayyun, which overlooks the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the port of Mocha with the assistance of American surveillance satellites.

The Houthi “Ansar Allah” movement denied these reports, but American support for Saudi Arabia in this war has become tangible, particularly after the American administration announced that the United States and Saudi Arabia have a binding mutual defence treaty and that the US Central Military Command will intervene to support the Saudi side in the Yemeni war under this treaty.

The question that arises is whether this American support for Saudi-backed Yemeni brigades is a prelude to securing the opening of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and bringing it under the control of the Saudi-American alliance, followed by the grand battle of controlling the Strait of Hormuz and possibly destroying Iranian military capabilities. And how will Iran respond in this case?

It was notable that American priorities in the war against Iran shifted, with a renewed emphasis on the Iranian nuclear file, including the need for Iran to completely halt uranium enrichment, hand over more than 500 kilograms of highly enriched uranium, and allow immediate access for International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to monitor and inspect all nuclear enrichment facilities.

General Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of the Iranian National Security Council, succinctly summarised US President Donald Trump’s current situation: “He (Trump) is now mired in a swamp where he cannot wage war or negotiate.”

Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu will face a critical election in nearly three weeks. Victory in it means remaining in power, whilst failure means an ignominious exit, isolation, appearing in court, and possibly spending the rest of their life in prison.

Sending 3,000 American soldiers to the occupying state, additional bombers and fighter planes, advanced air defence systems, and declaring a state of emergency in the Israeli army all point to an impending Israeli-American aggression against Iran, especially after Trump rejected the seven-point peaceful diplomatic initiative to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

It is certain that the Iranian leadership is fully aware of the American-Israeli move toward a military solution and has prepared well for it, whether by targeting the three aircraft carriers and more than 20 American warships in the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Red Sea, or by increasing the range of its missiles to over 1,000 kilometres to achieve this goal, and recruiting well over 33 million martyrs, including battalions of women who have been trained.

The next three weeks could be critical not just in redrawing the frontiers of West Asia (the Middle East) and its power centres, but possibly for the entire planet.

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