Qatar offering support to Houthis in Yemen

The regime in Qatar does everything possible to rescue its allies from their financial crises.

The same allies help Doha advance its terrorist agenda in the region.

The Iran-backed Houthi militia was the latest to receive support from Qatar.

Yemeni female activist, Hayat al-Bidani, who was forced to leave Qatar recently at the request of the Houthi militia and travelled to Djibouti with her son, spoke about Qatari support to the Iran-backed militia.

She wrote on Twitter on August 15 that she had received death threats and that she got divorce after undergoing physical and psychological abuse at the hands of her husband.

Al-Bidani noted that Qatari authorities had forced her to leave Qatar for Djibouti.

Yemeni Information Minister Muammar al-Eriani backed this version of al-Bidani’s story.

He called on Doha to stop cooperating with the Houthis, especially when it comes to crimes that violate international law and United Nations Security Council resolutions.

Al-Eriani said the government in Doha overlooks the suffering ordinary Yemenis sustain because of the Houthi coup on legitimacy in Yemen.

On August 16, the Qatari Foreign Ministry issued a statement in which it rejected the accusations of the Yemeni minister of information.

These accusations, it said, are baseless.

However, al-Bidani said asserted that she was forced to leave Qatar and that her life was in danger in the Gulf state.

Qatari support

Doha offers financial and military support to the Houthis. This support increased after the United States imposed sanctions on Iran in May 2018.

The sanctions had caused the Iranian economy to collapse. They made Iran’s mullahs to incapable of giving money to their militias in the region.

In July this year, Yemeni Prime Minister Mo’ein Abdel Malek called on Qatar to stop supporting the Houthis.

Qatar National Bank resumed its work in Yemeni capital Sana’a in 2019. The bank carried out dubious transactions for the sake of the Houthi militia.