By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer
 
With the UN no longer an impartial mediator in the war imposed upon Yemen by the Saudi-Emirati led coalition of some 34 countries under supervision and assistance of the US, the UK, France and the illegal Zionist entity, the invasion now in its 4th year, is gradually taking the shape of the 8-year Holy Defence that Iranians heroically went through in the 1980s when Saddam of the repressive Ba’th minority regime of Baghdad launched his similar unprovoked aggression on the Islamic Republic with the military support of both the western and eastern blocs.
Wherever the West and its surrogates, whether client regimes or non-state actors like the various terrorist outfits, are involved in wars and destabilizing efforts against independent countries – Syria for example – the World Body wastes no time in acting as a pressure lever against the aggressed side by issuing resolutions that are clearly in favour of the US-supported aggressors.
In Iran, we witnessed this gross injustice on several occasions during the imposed war when the Security Council Resolutions persistently pressured the Islamic Republic for peace without permanent solution, but never denounced Saddam for starting the war and committing untold war crimes, even his frequent chemical attacks with internationally banned substances supplied to him by the US and the then West Germany.
The same scenario has been repeated in Syria for the past seven years, with the UN never naming Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, and Turkey for their open support of the terrorists of various hue and colour that saw entire cities destroyed and whole populations displaced, neither castigating Israel for its frequent air raids, nor calling on the US to withdraw its occupation forces, but shameless trying to accuse President Dr. Bashar al-Assad of using chemical weapons which he never did, and telling the forces supporting the Syrian government to liberate occupied territories and restore stability, such as Iranian advisors and Lebanon’s legendry anti-terrorist movement Hezbollah, to leave Syria.
Now Britain’s Martin Griffiths, acting as UN mediator, is barely hiding his bias for the purveyors of war by saying Ansarallah – the popular grassroots movement mischievously called ‘rebels’ by the Arab-Western media for its resolute defence of Yemen’s integrity and independence – should hand over control of Hodeidah and its vital seaport to the UN.
Is he kidding, or does he think the Ansarallah and its dedicated leadership are a bunch of rustics neither familiar with diplomacy nor regional and international equations?
How could a well-organized nationalist administration, which has its own army, navy and air personnel, besides an experienced civilian apparatus that manages affairs of northern Yemen including smooth functioning of the Hodeidah seaport for inflow of vital food and medical supplies, and which over the past 12-days has decisively beaten back every bid by the Western-Zionist supported Saudi-Emirati military force to encroach upon Hodeidah airport, surrender its lifeline to the cowardly aggressors?
It makes no sense. One step backwards in the face of pressures for peace that will never materialize, means encouraging the enemy to make further demands, such as handing over of Yemen’s strategic arsenals, including the ballistic missiles that pierce with precision the US-supplied patriot defence system of Saudi Arabia.
A disarmed Yemen would be catastrophic for not just the Zaydi Shi’a Muslims that make up forty percent of the population, but for a majority of other Yemeni factions and tribes who resent Saudi control and will be massacred like sheep by the Wahhabis.
The Yemeni masses, who frequently spill out into the streets in tens of thousands, as they did on Friday in besieged Hodeidah with vociferous chants of God’s Majesty (Allah-o Akbar) and references to Imam Husain’s (AS) refusal to yield to injustice, followed by slogans of "death to the US”, "death to Israel”, and "death the Saudi-Emirati invaders”, very well remember what that Sage of the Age, the Father of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini (RA), had said to UN pressures: "An imposed peace is worse than an imposed war.”
That is the reason Ansarallah spokesman Mohammed Abdus-Salaam, who has served as chief negotiator to Kuwait and Geneva over the past two years, said in clear words: "The UN envoy’s measures are only meant to cover up the continuation of the Saudi-led war on Yemen. If Griffiths follows the lead of his predecessor (Mauritania’s Saudi-bought Ismail Ould Sheikh Ahmed), he would fail to find a settlement to the conflict.
The Yemenis are well aware of Griffiths’ links to the British regime that supplies Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Bahrain with weapons and intelligence to use against the Ansarallah, as well as his failure as UN envoy in Syria, Afghanistan and Libya.
Therefore, the UN should stop its pretensions to peace. If it is a real mediator, instead of labelling Ansarallah as "rebels” and insisting on absurd Security Council resolutions that call for cutting of military assistance to the legitimate defenders of Yemen’s integrity and sovereignty, who have the right to target the aggressors with missiles, should demand the withdrawal of the Saudis, the Emiratis and all other invading forces from Yemeni soil and expose the US, the UK, France, and Israel, as the real culprits to the catastrophe that has resulted in famine and epidemics.
In the meantime, the Ansarallah are determined to carry on their defence of the country. Their heroic defence of Hodeidah, coupled with their sinking of ships and downing of aircraft of the aggressors, have started winning over to their side several of the tribes and factions who are resentful of the Saudi-Emirati coalition’s horrific crimes against the people of Yemen that sexually abuse of thousands of detainees.