16/3/2025–|Last update: 03/16/202506:32 am (Mecca time)
The military expert, Colonel Hatem al-Falahi, suggested that the strike in the United States and his allies yesterday, Saturday, at the Ansar Allah group (the Houthis), is an introduction to a ground operation aimed at reducing the group’s control areas in Yemen.
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump said he had ordered Houthi leaders and their military bases, but the group said the raids were targeting the capital’s residential neighborhoods, Sanaa.
The American president stressed that his administration “will not tolerate the Houthi attack on American ships, and we will use the overwhelming mortal force until we achieved our goal”.
Trump called on Iran to stop supporting this group and “not threatening the American people or its president or world shipping corridors”.
In an analysis of the island, Al-Falahi said that the United States is not only intended to dissuade the Houthis and Iran through these strikes, but that it can also open the way to a wild operation by the Yemeni legitimate forces.
Important military sites
The American strikes targeted sites that were known for the presence of the great Houthi leaders – in particular the Al -Jayraf region, north of Sanaa – “but they withdrew them 6 months ago, and the region remained for training and mobilization”, according to Al -Falahi.
Houthis also have mobile missile platforms, which allows them to transport them and launch attacks from anywhere, which means that targeting certain rules will not stop the group’s attacks, the advice of the military expert.
Unlike the Joe Bid’s administration, the Trump administration has re-placid the Houthis on the terrorism lists, and it also works to reduce Iran’s influence in the region, including the capacities that Houthis have obtained in Iran.
Consequently, Al-Falahi does not exclude that pre-detentive strikes are an American approach in the region at the time of Trump, and “we can attend more strikes in different regions, and this process can continue for a long time”.
A possible desert
The expansion of operations may include an involvement in strategic economic objectives such as the port of Hodeidah, which currently represents the group’s lung, as well as the possibility of moving on to a terrestrial military action which may depend on the use by the group of the last attack.
The military expert also said that the Washington Post had spoken of Houthis had a very modern technology that would make their drones more dangerous for Israel and the American forces in the region.
He concluded that this process could stop in the event that the Houthis stop targeting ships in the Red Sea and distant war in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Falahi has also not excluded that things come to a military confrontation between Washington and Tehran, unless understanding is reached in a certain number of questions, in particular the influence of Iran in the region and its nuclear program, which are explicitly said that all the options are available to deal with it.
Meanwhile, CNN cited an enlightened source saying that there is no wild penetration or invasion that will occur in Yemen, and that what will happen is to direct a series of strategic strikes.
On Saturday evening, the Yemenite group said that the raids to which Sanaa had been exposed led to the fall of “9 martyrs and 9 injured civilians”.