None benefited from Yemen civil war by patronizing the parties, general people suffering goes beyond control

By Shamsul Basunia

Houthis started to make abduct political opponents in Yemen. Mohammed Qahtan, the 57-year-old leader of the Islah party was arrested on April 4, and his family has not been informed about where he is being held or on what grounds, he is being detained

Finally, Iran, Saudi Arabia does not achieve profits from the civil war in Yemen. Both the countries intended to draw international attention but failed to do the same as no country responded to their clarion call. Only the warmongers USA and Russia began to sell weapons to the warring parties exist in the country.

Despite of Saudi constant airstrikes, the overthrown Saleh forces were not able to advance more. They remained concentrating within and around the port city of Aden near the Saudi frontier. On the other hand, Houthi forces became a regular force dressed with certain uniforms, trained by Iranian commanders and though they are mentally and psychologically Shiates.

Sunni forces are composed of soldiers, who are tribal, the Salafists, Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda supporting people. These irregular forces are supported by Saudi Arabia. Comparatively the Saudi supported forces are weaker than the Iran supported forces. Iran is separated with Yemen by geography while Saudi Arabia is attached with Yemen and next-door neighbor. As it has no so powerful land forces, so it cannot conquer the lost areas especially the capital city Sana along with the vast territories.

The ground intervention scenario has eliminated as Pakistan and Egypt refused to participate. Thus, Saudi Arabia settled for airstrikes, which cannot guarantee winning the battle, at least not in the short term.

On the contrary, Iran did not earn any victory over the overall battle that might bring the international support. Iran now has to settle for one party, the Houthis, who will remain its ally, despite all of its expansion attempts. A US warship stopped an Iranian ship loaded with weapons near the coast of Yemen on April 20.

Virtually, Iran has lost diplomatically and politically while Saudi Arabia succeeded with the passing of UN Resolution 2216, which is issued in favor of its military intervention. Saudi Arabia was able to neutralize Russia and bring down its project, which aimed at seeking equality between the Houthis and Saleh on the one hand, and the Saudi-supported military forces on the other.

Saudi Arabia is looking for a way to get out of the military impasse, while Iran is seeking to use the political situation to its advantage. Meanwhile, a political settlement remains hard to reach in Yemen, as the state institutions collapsed and social conditions have deteriorated because of the civil war.

However, the mass people of Yemen do not like civil war and they desire an end to the war but no initiatives yet take for that. Civil society calls for peace and stability in the war-torn country making no delay.

Nearly 1900 people have been killed in Yemen and Saudi-led coalition began to strike air assault against the Houthi forces, Since 2014, March the battle has been carried out though the Saudi ground forces are not seen to fight against the Houthis.

Yemen has been in a civil war since 2014, when Houthi militants, the country’s primary opposition party, took control over large parts of the country. Houthis took over the nation’s capital of Sanaa, forcing Hadi to flee to Saudi Arabia.