Saudi Arabia wants Hudaydah as bastion on Red Sea coasts: Analyst

Saudi Arabia is doing all in its power to seize Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah and establish a stronghold on strategic Red Sea coasts, a commentator says.

Riaz Karim, director of the Veritas Center for Strategic Studies, told Press TV that “the Saudis want Hudaydah by hook or by crook and they are going to do anything and everything within their power to get that sea port, because they do not have any stronghold in that area.”

“In northern Yemen, they do not have any stronghold; so, it is very important for them to have a stronghold…because then they can get to Bab al-Mandeb,” he added.

The Saudis and their allies are “strangling Yemen” ahead of UN-proposed peace talks, said Karim, adding that the US has also “exaggerating” what it calls Iran’s role in Yemen in an attempt to “whitewash” the Riyadh-led coalition’s crimes in the violence-stricken country.

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Yemen’s Army decisively foils an all-out Saudi Arabian-led offensive, which was in the works for days to seize the country’s lifeline port ahead of potential UN-brokered negotiations.

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