By: AbdulKarīm Ādam.
A State Department official confirmed in a report by Reuters, that the United States wants to continue support to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s war and will remain engaged in efforts to combat extremist militancy in the Arab state also Iranian influence, despite recent calls to end its support and assistance.
The Saudi-Yemen war aids the U.S. agenda to stoke the flames of sectarianism in the Muslim world and irrespective of calls to stop the war in Yemen the U.S. is unwilling to extinguish the fires it initially set alight. The Senate last month even voted to advance a resolution to end US military support, which includes arms sales and intelligence sharing, for the Western-backed Sunni Muslim coalition that intervened in 2015 against the Iranian-aligned Houthis to restore the internationally recognized government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, but the Trump administration turned a deaf ears.
Timothy Lenderking, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Arabian Gulf Affairs said “There are pressures in our system … to either withdraw from the conflict or discontinue our support of the coalition, which we are strongly opposed to on the administration side. We do believe that the support for the coalition is necessary. It sends a wrong message if we discontinue our support,”
To justify their crimes during a security forum held at UAE, Timothy said “We do believe that the support for the coalition is necessary. It sends a wrong message if we discontinue our support,”
The US official’s reassurances of continued support comes as Sweden hosts the first UN-led peace talks in two years between the warring parties and as Gulf Arab leaders hold an annual summit in Riyadh on Sunday, expected to discuss the war.
“There is no place in a future Yemen for an Iranian-backed threat to Saudi Arabia, the UAE and vital international economic quarters,” he said, adding that the coalition was also combating al Qaeda and Islamic State militants in Yemen.