Bloomberg revealed on Saturday that Saudi Arabia asked its puppet government in Yemen to back down from the economic escalation and decisions issued by the Central Bank of Aden, which target banks and the economic situation in the capital, Sana’a, and the free provinces with the green light from Riyadh.
It indicated that Saudi Arabia’s request for its tools to back down from the economic escalation came after warnings and threats from the Leader of the Revolution, Sayyed Abdulmalik Badreddin al-Houthi, to target sensitive facilities inside the kingdom.
The American agency added that Saudi Arabia threatened the Saudi-backed government with stopping the financial support and salaries disbursed to them monthly if they did not comply with Riyadh’s demands and back down from the decisions issued by Ahmed Ghalib al-Maabqi, governor of the Central Bank of Aden, against commercial banks in Sana’a, under direct instructions from the Kingdom.
Meanwhile, Fatima Abu al-Asrar, a researcher at the Middle East Institute for Research, stated that Saudi Arabia is facing difficult choices given the “big leap” in the capabilities of the Yemenis since 2015, as demonstrated by their sending a drone approximately 2,000 kilometers (1,242 miles) to “Tel Aviv,” deep in the Zionist entity.
Bernard Haykel, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, explained that the Saudi regime is very cautious about facing the forces of Sana’a again. He noted that Riyadh has learned the lesson and realized that the Americans may be here today and gone tomorrow, but the Yemenis are here today and will not leave tomorrow.
The recent agreement follows a period of escalatory actions by Saudi Arabia, which included targeting Yemen’s economy and obstructing humanitarian agreements, reportedly influenced by the United States. The aim of the economic and humanitarian escalation is to deter Yemen from supporting the Palestinian people who are subjected to a Zionist genocide in the Gaza Strip.
The agreement is seen as a response to warnings from the Leader of the Revolution, Sayyed Abdulmalik al-Houthi, against worsening the economic conditions of Yemeni citizens, who have already been suffering for ten years as a result of the US-Saudi aggression on the country. Sayyed Abdulmalik has imposed an equation of “airport for airport, port for port, and bank for bank”.
