Saudi Killing in Yemen Continues: Is It To Scuttle the Iran Nuclear Deal?

Saudi Arabia continues to kill and destroy in Yemen, one of the poorest nations on Earth. Today’s reports indicate that Saudi jets bombed the airport in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, to prevent an Iranian cargo plane that was bringing in relief, from landing there.

On the ground, the situation in Yemen is becoming horrific, Reuters reported today in a story entitled “Hunger and Death Stalk Millions in Yemen’s War”:

“Hospitals bereft of electricity, homes crushed by air strikes, thousands on the move in search of water, shelter and food: Yemen’s humanitarian plight, long fragile, has become disastrous after a month of all-out war. Ambulances can’t run, there’s very little electricity and not enough fuel for generators. In a water-scarce country like Yemen, that means you can’t even pump water,” International Committee of the Red Cross spokeswoman Marie Claire Feghali was quoted as saying. “It’s a catastrophe, a humanitarian catastrophe. It was difficult enough before, but now there are just no words for how bad it’s gotten,” she said.

The UN counts 1,080 dead, more than 4,000 wounded, and 150,000 displaced. The UN also says that 12 million people are “food insecure” or going hungry, a 13% increase since the conflict started.

Lebanon’s former communications minister, Osam Noeman, told Iran’s Fars News Agency on April 27 that Saudi Arabia had launched the war on Yemen in a bid to trouble attainment of a nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 group comprising the five UN Security Council permanent members plus Germany. Noeman told FNA:

“Standing against the Lausanne understanding between Iran and the Group 5+1 …. which, according to Saudi Arabia, will increase Iran’s influence in the region, has been the main incentive behind Saudi Arabia’s ‘Operation Decisive Storm’ against Yemen.”

In relevant remarks on April 28, FNA reports that Khalid al-Asmae’i, a prominent Mideast analyst, told Egypt’s Sada Elbalad news site that Israel’s recent airstrike against the Syrian military posts in the strategic Qalamoun region was aimed at undermining the nuclear talks underway in Lausanne, Switzerland. “The Israeli attacks are an instrument to pressure the U.S. administration and trouble the nuclear agreement with Iran,” he said.