Saudi-led Coalition Defeated in Yemen’s Hudaydah: IRGC Chief
TEHRAN (Basirat) :Major General Mohammad-Ali Jafari, the chief-commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), says the coalition led by Arab and Western countries has failed in its operation to seize the Yemeni port city of Hudaydah.
General Jafari made the comments in an address to a Tuesday ceremony in Tehran.
He also predicted that the resistance forces will soon emerge victorious
in Yemen.
Militants and foreign mercenaries armed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
Emirates are attempting to capture the well-defended city and push the Houthis
out of their sole Red Sea port in the biggest battle of the war.
"A battle of attrition awaits the Saudi alliance which it cannot withstand. The
Saudi coalition will not win the battle in Hudaydah,” Houthi spokesman Mohammed
Abdulsalam told Lebanon-based al-Mayadeen TV.
Saudi Arabia on Sunday conducted airstrikes on the airport, to support forces
attempting to seize it. The official SABA news agency said warplanes carried out
five strikes on Hudaydah – a lifeline to millions of Yemenis.
Ground troops including Emiratis, Sudanese and Yemenis have surrounded the main
airport compound.
Mohammed al-Sharif, deputy head of Yemen’s civil aviation, said images
circulated online about the airport had been taken in October 2016.
A fence shown as proof of the airport’s capture is actually situated near the
al-Durayhimi district, on a piece of land belonging to a Yemeni lawmaker, the
official Saba news agency quoted him as saying.
Source: IFP news
