US seeks to block Eurasia maritiame trade routes with Iran arms claim in Yemen: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with Jamal Wakim, a professor at the Lebanese University, about Iran’s foreign minister denying the US claims that Tehran ships arms to Yemen, saying Washington itself knows better which international parties spread terrorism throughout the world.

Here is a rough transcription of the interview:

Press TV: Of course when it comes to the situation in Yemen, it seems the US government is not at all disturbed about the human rights abuses or the war crimes that are being perpetrated by the Saudis using weapons that have been sold to them by the US and its allies?

Wakim: Definitely because the US considers that the war in Yemen is part of its global strategy to contain Eurasia that consists of mainly three powers that are China, Russia and Iran and it needs to block this Eurasian giant from having access to maritime trade routes and that is why we see that the war in Yemen, the true objective is to block Iran and behind it China and Russia from having access to the Red Sea and to the gate of the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean and it is not strange that this comes after two days of Iranian boats intercepting an American destroyer in the Hormuz [passage].

So it is a part of American global strategy to block Iran, to control the straits, the main intersections of maritime trade routes and forbid its opponents from having access to these trade routes and this is how I understand the war on Yemen because Yemen wanted to get rid of Saudi tutelage that was undermining its sovereignty and this led to this war, this Saudi war against Yemen. Of course it is supported by the United States, it is financed and even the weapons that are used by the Saudis are American.

So far there was a blocking of any initiative by the United Nations, let’s say, institutions to take action against Saudi Arabia regarding human rights violations and this is how I understand John Kerry’s declaration, accusing Iran of shipping weapons to Yemen.

Press TV: Well by making this accusation, do you think that the US is also trying to shift attention from its own complicity in this war against Yemen?

Wakim: Well of course this would be one objective but I believe that at the time when all cards are being reshuffled especially after the developments in Syria, Iraq, the shift in Turkish politics relatively towards Russia and Iran, the United States wants to contain the damage inflicted on its interests in the region and that is why it needs to help its ally –Saudi Arabia - out of the Yemeni crisis and this is how I understand the declaration of John Kerry and his attempt to help the Saudis have a solution or get out of the Yemeni entanglement.

Press TV: And how much of this goal do you think the US and Saudi Arabia have achieved?

Wakim: Well so far Saudi Arabia has been stumbling in Yemen for the past two years. In spite of inflicting heavy damage on Yemeni infrastructure and civilians and on Yemeni cities, in spite of all these damages, the Saudis were not able to achieve their political objectives and this is considered as a defeat to Saudi Arabia especially that Saudi cities are being targeted by Yemeni resistance and this would encourage for example Yemen to keep on challenging Saudi hegemony and this would also damage the capacity of Saudi Arabia to impose its hegemony over other tiny countries in the Arab Peninsula.  

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