By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

Wednesday’s perfect hit by a Yemeni drone on a strategic Zionist centre in the Gulf of Aqaba port city of Omm ar-Rashash that left over a score of Israeli occupiers injured, some of them seriously, is indeed part of the defence of the genocide-stricken people of Gaza.
These days the Yemeni people are celebrating the 11th anniversary of their independence from decades of dictatorships affiliated to the West.
The coincidence of these celebrations in Sana’a, Sa’da, Hodeidah, and other places, with marking of the Holy Defence Week in Iran on the anniversary (45th this year) of the war the US had imposed upon the Islamic Republic through Saddam of the repressive Ba’th minority regime of Baghdad, certainly has a message for the masses of the region.
It is interesting to recall that in September 1980 when Iran was subjected to an unprovoked war, Yemen’s dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh had declared his support for Saddam. 
Born in a Zaidi Shi’ite family Ali Abdullah Saleh was a Godless person like Saddam, and suffered more or less a similar fate, when he had to be gunned down by Yemen’s revolutionaries because of betrayal of the homeland.
Today Saddam and Saleh have vanished from the scene, while the people of Iraq and of Yemen have become masters of their destiny with inspiration from the brotherly people of Iran.
Both the nations are fiercely independent and conscious of their Islamic roots, and are part of the resistance movement against the devilish designs of the US and the illegal Zionist entity.
With firm faith in Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) and his Infallible Ahl al-Bayt, the Hashd-ash-Sha’bi of Iraq and the Ansarallah of Yemen – similar to Lebanon’s legendry anti-terrorist movement, the Hezbollah – view the Islamic Republic of Iran and its victories over despots, terrorists, traitors, and hegemons, as models to be emulated.
The Yemenis are confident that if Iran can defeat almost the whole world during 8 years of the US imposed war, they can also vanquish Israel.
Their missile and drone barrages on enemy centres in Occupied Palestine and in the Red Sea on ships related to Israel, is for the sake of peace in the region and end of the genocide in Gaza. 
The vociferous chants of God’s Majesty (Allaho Akbar) and “al-mowt le Amrika, al-mowt le Israel” (death to the US, death to Israel) are similar to those of the Iranian nation’s “marg bar Amrika, marg bar Israel”.
Of course, these slogans have now spread to other countries and are firm proof of the will of the nations for mobilizing all means of defence to safeguard their independence and eventually get rid of the US and Israel – as the region has got rid of Saddam and Saleh.