Former IRGC chief blasts Saudi aggression on Yemen as 'silly'
A former chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has slammed the ongoing military aggression by Saudi Arabia on Yemen as uncalculated, saying Riyadh’s military campaign against Yemen is a war on the basic needs of the people in the impoverished Arab country.
Major General Mohsen Rezaei, who currently serves as the secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council, said in remarks published late Tuesday that a close look at Saudi Arabia’s military campaign in Yemen reveals its absurdity.
“We think that the Saudi army or its heads have no clear understanding of what is happening. What we see on the ground is not consistent with any rational war and standard principles,” Rezaei told the Lebanese based al-Mayadin TV.
The former Iranian commander said the Saudis are conducting 110 to 120 sorties in Yemen’s northwestern Sa’ada Province on a daily basis, manically attacking everything , which shows they have no clear target from their airstrikes.
“When you martyr 4,000 people and leave 6,500 others wounded, what sort of purposefulness is that?” Rezaei asked, adding, “The Yemen battle is not a military war, it is a war on food and water, it is a war on families, woman and children, it is a war on fuel.”
“They are using forbidden bombs like napalm and inflammable ones without having a clear objective. Two weeks ago, they bombed Aden with 150 sorties on a daily basis. This is questionable because evidence points to a childish, aimless and futile war,” said Rezaei.
Rezaei, who served as IRGC chief for 16 years since early 1980s, said earlier in May that the war on Yemen is part of a bigger plan by Saudi Arabia and the United States to disintegrate the Middle Eastern countries.
"Under this plan, the Saudis are responsible for the disintegration of Syria and Yemen while the responsibility for the disintegration of Iraq rests directly with the Americans," he said.
Saudi Arabia started its military aggression against Yemen on March 26 - without a UN mandate - in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement, which currently controls the capital, Sana’a, and other major provinces, and to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Riyadh.
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