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Saudi Arabia, Arab allies waging US proxy war in Yemen: Analyst

Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies in the Persian Gulf are fighting a proxy war for the United States in the region.

Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies in the Persian Gulf are fighting a proxy war for the United States in the region, says a geopolitical analyst in Geneva, Switzerland.

“As you know, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and a number of [Persian] Gulf states are acting just as proxies to the United States,” Peter Koenig told Press TV on Monday.

The United States cannot allow a country like Yemen in such a strategic location to have an independent government, he added. “Therefore absolutely anything has to be done to subdue Yemen.”

Saudi Arabia launched an air campaign in Yemen on March 26 in a bid to restore power to fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

US President Barack Obama has authorized the Pentagon to provide logistical and intelligence support to Saudi airstrikes in Yemen.Saudi Arabia waging US proxy war 

The Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen is intended to create “lasting chaos” in the Middle East, Koenig said. “This is more than war crimes, this is absolute shame and the world doesn’t do anything about it, it is outrageous.”

Hundreds of civilians, including women and children, have been killed in the Saudi airborne attacks against Yemen.

The Ansarullah fighters took control of the Yemeni capital in September 2014 and are currently moving southward. The revolutionaries said Hadi’s government was incapable of properly running the country and containing the growing wave of corruption and terror.

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