Houthi and targeting Saudi airports

In November 2023, the Houthi group began targeting commercial ships with missiles and drones in Bab al-Mandab, which prompted shipping companies to change their course in the face of an increase in costs and delays in arrival. At the beginning of March of this year, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced a ban on navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, which caused a crisis that affected various countries importing oil, fertilizers, etc., and in May of this year, Iran indicated through its military spokesman, “Ibrahim Zulfiqari,” that it would impose duties on Internet cables, which means another reproduction of the Iranian speech demanding the imposition of fees on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. On October 12, Iran threatened to target cables and data centers in the region in the event of renewed war, which means that Iranian diplomacy is based on blackmailing the interests of the countries of the world, leaving behind its back the systematic diplomacy that remains available instead of the policy of escalation that has brought Iran nothing but disasters. For its part, diplomacy in the Arab Gulf countries contributed strongly to stopping previous strikes on Iran. Iran did not maintain its cordiality, but rather targeted these countries during the American strikes, and its targeting of civilian places extended, including airports, infrastructure, housing, water stations, and so on. Then, on the 10th and 11th of last September, it targeted, through its militias in Iraq, the Saudi oil pipeline “East-West”, which transports oil to the port of Yanbu on the Red Sea with a capacity of 7 million barrels per day that travels to countries around the world. The targeting of the oil pipeline was accompanied by the Houthi launching at the same time its attack on Mokha and then taking control of Bab al-Mandab. Therefore, it is a set ofThe targeting was complex in a way that leaves no doubt about the nature of the Iranian role and interests in the scene, leading to the targeting of airports in Saudi Arabia, including the most violent targeting of King Khalid Airport in Riyadh, on the 10th of this October, which left behind 12 dead and 309 injured, most of them of multiple nationalities, including Umrah pilgrims who were wearing Ihram clothing. With the Houthis adopting the crime, the Iranian goals were clear. It began through the policy of closing waterways, targeting global oil supply lines, and what it now threatens to target marine cables, so that the Houthi targeting of Saudi airports complements the equation, because the Kingdom’s geography is the busiest air connection point between the East and the West and is the connecting point between the continents, which brings to mind the rotation of ships around Africa in the process of avoiding the risks of being targeted by the Houthi group in the Strait of Bab. Al-Mandab, and therefore Al-Houthi imagines that he can close airports in the Kingdom and neutralize Saudi airspace in front of international aviation. The issue of neutralizing the flight path outside the geography of the Kingdom will cause a huge economic cost to various countries of the world, which means that Al-Houthi, after a series of defeats in Yemen at the hands of the legitimate government, is trying to practice the same disruption of global supply lines, but this time through an extremely brutal image that targets the lives of civilians in an unprecedented way. The current scene reveals the move of Iranian arms in the region, their role, and the extent of shifting interests. Politics turns into a game in which the interests of the world become hostage in the hands of these groups, which work to disrupt the state system in places of their control, reaching a situation whereThese groups have become capable of causing direct harm to the economic interests of the world, which requires an effort at the international level to get rid of this phenomenon. Exactly on the other side, Iranian interests become the node in the circle of negotiating its crises, and these interests are fundamentally linked to the role played by these militias, which are the real negotiating card for Iran, which prolongs the scale of the crisis, and keeps the time factor running in the interest of disrupting political solutions, which is what Iran seeks, which did not take into account the interests of its people in the first place, and therefore it will not care about the consequences resulting from its arms as long as these arms give it more time.