US, UK complicit in Saudi crimes in Yemen: Commentator

Press TV has interviewed Ali al-Ahmed, director of the Institute for [Persian] Gulf Affairs (IGA), and Daniel Serwer, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, both from Washington, to discuss the Saudi aggression against the Yemeni people.

Ahmed said the Saudi war on Yemen has been supported by the United States from the beginning, adding that the American and British authorities are “full partners” of any crime committed by the Al Saud regime against the Yemeni people.

He said the Saudi regime and its supporters in Washington did not anticipate that the war on Yemen would continue more than a year. Washington and Riyadh did not either expect that the Saudi-backed fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, would not have even one city under control, the commentator said.

So, he argued, the Saudis have achieved none of their objectives in Yemen and “this is really a big failure for the Saudis, their allies and in particular really the United States and really this shows that the American system of decision-making is broken completely.”

Serwer, for his part, said Saudi Arabia favors a “political solution” in Yemen, underlining that the Saudis do not want to continue airstrikes against the Yemenis “If they can possibly avoid it.”

Referring to the US logistical support for the Saudi war on Yemen, the professor said, “The United States has a permanent relationship with Saudi Arabia that requires it to provide some supports in situations like this.”

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