Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The situation in war-torn Yemen is catastrophic. The Arab world’s poorest country is in the grip of the epidemic of cholera which has afflicted half a million people, because of the total destruction of its infrastructure and the killing of scores of thousands of its citizens, by Saudi Arabia, the richest country of the Arab world.
Unfortunately, the UN, under pressure from the US, which is a party to the destructive so far two-and-a-half year long war, has remained ominously silent in the face of state terrorism by Riyadh on a massive scale.
Whenever the World Body says something on Yemen, it is clear that its special representative is not interested in persuading the aggressor parties to cease their war, but blames what he calls the ‘Houthi rebels’ for the conflict.
This is no formula for peace in a country where the lightly armed popular units of the Ansarallah Movement, bereft of boots and proper military gear, have shown remarkable courage and resilience in the face of the state-of-the art armaments being hurled at them.
Schools, mosques, hospitals, bazaars, power-generation plants, waterworks, and residential units – many of them historic and unique from the architectural point of view with registration on the UNESCO list of heritage of humanity – have been reduced to a rubble.
As a result epidemic diseases, especially meningitis and cholera have become widespread.
According to a report compiled jointly by Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Executive Director of World Food Programme (WFP) David Beasley, and Executive Director of UNICEF Anthony Lake: "This week Yemen reaches a grim milestone: half a million people are sick with suspected cholera this year, almost 2,000 of whom have died. It’s the world’s worst cholera outbreak in the midst of the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.
"Conflict, hunger and disease are daily affairs in this war-battered country: two thirds of the population, that is, 17 million people, do not know where their next meal will come from; 5,000 more Yemenis fall ill with cholera or acute watery diarrhea every day.”
Following this rare admission by UN agencies of the catastrophe, comes the report that the evil mind behind the war, Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), who in the absence of his father, Salman bin Abdul-Aziz (on a long vacation in Morocco), is now the virtual ruler of the Wahhabi entity that Britain created in 1932, is putting out feelers for ending his war.
In emails leaked by the western media, MBS in conversation with the Heir Apparent of UAE, Mohammad bin Zayed, is willing to work out a settlement.
Observers, however, are cautious regarding the so-called leaks and the supposed feelers. They regard it as Bedouin deceit to try to fool the free world and force an agreement on the Yemenis against their liking and to the benefit of the aggressors, since the terrible war that was unleashed on the assumption of battering the Ansarallah into submission, has failed.
The war has been catastrophic for the aggressors from all angles. It is not just the heavy cost of its continuation without any results and the tarnishing of the supposedly Islamic credentials of the Saudis, the Emiratis and their accomplices-in-crimes, but has exposed the cowardice and lack of military prowess of the richly-paid and well-equipped soldiers mustered by Riyadh and Abu Dhabi.
Saudi Arabia cannot even defend from frequent Ansarallah incursions what it calls its southern provinces of Najran, Jizan, and Asir, which are actually occupied northern parts of Yemen, and where sentiments are on the rise against the minority Wahhabi cult ruling them. Moreover, the casualties of the war include members of the ruling families, making MBS and his bosom pal in the UAE, craftily think of outsourcing the war to the al-Qa’eda terrorists.
There is neither faith nor sincerity in the cliques ruling pro-US and pro-Zionist Arab states, as is clear by their deceitful hosting of Iraqi religious-political leader, Seyyed Moqtada as-Sadr, who, if he is not cautious and careful, could be used as a Trojan Horse to weaken Iraq and the Islamic Resistance Front in the region, including Yemen.      
Thus, in view of these realities, Ansarallah ought to be on guard against any ruse, and since they are the winners of the war, they should demand complete withdrawal of all the so-called coalition troops from the soil of Yemen. Then only can the different tribal, political, and religious groups of Yemen can sit together, without any outside interference, to work out a settlement for governing the country.
Of course, Saudi Arabia should be made to pay war reparations amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars, not just for rebuilding the infrastructure, but as compensation to the families of the 20,000 odd martyrs of the two-and-a-half year long war.