Will this operation be a prelude to joining the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces? What are the implications for the Gulf region, American aircraft carriers, and the Red Sea?

Abdel Bari Atwan
Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the official spokesperson for the military wing of the Yemeni “Ansar Allah” movement, returns to television screens in his military uniform and with his distinctive rhetorical language after a long absence, announcing the bombardment of the occupied southern Palestinian territories with several ballistic missiles and after the completion of the first full month of the American-Israeli aggression on Iran, which means several things at first.
• The first: The Iranian leadership, as the leader of the Resistance Axis, has a well-planned strategy for distributing positions among its allies and establishing a schedule for military participation.
• Second, a practical translation of the martyr Sayyid Ali Khamenei’s prophecy of widening and prolonging the conflict while drowning the aggressors in a regional war of attrition.
Third, focusing missile strikes on the weaknesses of the American axis—specifically, American military bases in the Arab region, the heart of the Israeli occupation state, and the closure of strategic straits such as the Strait of Hormuz at the Gulf’s entrance and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea—will result in a global economic crisis.

Opening the Yemeni Red Sea front, which is in a highly strategic location, means that the Israeli occupying state is now besieged from the south (Ansar Allah), the north (Hezbollah), the east (Iran), and soon Iraq by a network of hypersonic, cluster, and submunition ballistic missiles, as well as tens of thousands of highly advanced and cheaply manufactured drones. Such actions will put the reckless American president and his Israeli friends in extremely untenable positions, especially because NATO and its European member states have unanimously distanced themselves from engagement in a conflict that would almost certainly end in defeat.
In support of the besieged militants in the Gaza Strip, the Yemenis became the first to use hypersonic and cluster ballistic missiles in Middle Eastern military history, bombing Greater Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Airports, as well as destroying and rendering inoperable the port of Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat). They are now intervening militarily “in support of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the resistance fronts in Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine and continuing military operations until the aggression on all resistance fronts stops and the siege on the Yemeni people is broken,”, according to Brigadier General Al-Sari’s first statement upon his auspicious return.
The Yemeni Front’s renewal and activation can be summarised as follows:
• The first: Yemeni missiles are partnering with their Iranian counterparts to target American military bases in neighbouring Arab Gulf countries to the north and east, owing to Yemen’s strategic geographical location in the southern Arabian Peninsula and the extensive combat experience gained by Yemeni military weapons during an eight-year war with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• The second step is to close the Red Sea to American fleets and aircraft carriers. It is worth noting that Yemeni missiles and warships have hit and destroyed many American destroyers and aircraft carriers, causing them to retreat to the northern Red Sea to avoid these missiles.
• The third step was to completely shut off Israeli infiltration efforts in the Horn of Africa, particularly in Somaliland, Djibouti, the Red Sea islands, and Socotra, which “Israel” hoped to convert into military bases for aggression against Yemen and control of the Red Sea’s western shore.

The reactivation of the Yemeni front and the entry of the Yemeni “Ansar Allah” movement into Sanaa with all its power in favour of Iran, based on the idea of “responding to Iranian loyalty with Yemeni loyalty”, represents a key strategic shift in the current American-Israeli conflict. This strategy not only extends its duration but also alters its consequences, inflicting a severe defeat on the aggressors. Yemeni fighters are renowned for their bravery, daring, and unwillingness to fight until death or victory. As a result, Yemen has earned a reputation as the final resting place of conquerors, particularly of large powers.
Today, Yemen, with its northern Houthi faction, joins “Hezbollah” in Lebanon in opposing American-Israeli aggression in support of the Iranian Islamic Revolution. Hezbollah, whose rockets have not stopped bombing Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Akka throughout the past month, has reached the Gaza envelope settlements (Sderot, Ashkelon, Ashdod) with its missiles. It has vigorously opposed Israel’s invasion of southern Lebanon, and its presence has drastically altered the balance of power in this conflict. We do not rule out the anticipated surprise of the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces and their groups entering the field, establishing a new front and possibly breaching the Jordanian and Syrian borders to reach the occupied Palestinian boundaries (Israel). We have prepared the strategy in this regard, and we may activate it in the coming days. The days are passing us by.