Iran’s missiles shell Saudi Arabia
Map: Saudi Arabia is the light coloured country at the center. Yemen borders it to the South.Iran does not border Saudi Arabia but it is just across the Persian Gulf.
There is a civil war in Yemen. Houthi rebels (backed by Iran) are trying to overthrow Yemen's government (backed by Saudi Arabia). Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Austrlias regard the Houthis to be a terrorist group. Atrocities against civilians are regularly being committed by both sides..
Iran and Saudi Arabia are enemies, and Iranian supplied Houthi missiles have been fired into Saudi Arabia....
The Houthi-Iranian missiles which were fired towards Riyadh and other Saudi cities reveal why fighting the Houthis in Yemen is an existential matter and an inevitable choice, contrary to those demanding to halt the war or doubting its usefulness.
We are before a terrorist group that takes orders from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and that does not even aim to serve the interests of the Houthi Movement itself. Just like its masters in Tehran, this terror group frankly states that it wants death and destruction for Saudi Arabia and the Saudi people . (LINK)
It’s important to clarify this for the thousand time and note that this is not only Saudi Arabia’s war but the war of an Islamic Arab coalition that has international legitimate support.
The conclusive evidence that Iran has supplied the Houthis with the missiles used to target Saudi Arabia and sent Revolutionary Guards, and perhaps Hezbollah experts as well, to Yemen, make the confrontation with Iran, whatever its form is, imminent, that is if the decision to confront it had not been already taken!
After the Iranian missiles were fired towards Saudi Arabia, the Saudi cabinet chaired by King Salman said: “The Iranian-backed Houthi militias’ criminal aggression proves that the Iranian regime continues to support the Houthis. This is a clear violation of UN Security Council Resolutions 2216 and 2231. It also shows the destructive role Iran is playing in Yemen by smuggling missiles to terrorist militias to use them against civilians in Yemen and the kingdom.”
The stakes go up again.
The Iranians are funding and supplying several 'players' in several countries in the M.E. and in Africa, among other places. International Sponsor of Terrorism-and yet, the United nations does nothing. Seems like sooner or later, Saudi Arabia is going to have to give the Iranian leadership an object lesson in why they should mind their own affairs and not the affairs of others.