Saudi Arabia breaks Iran’s arm, foils Houthi drone attack

Ali Ragab

The Arab coalition destroyed a Houthi drone launched from Yemen’s Amran province towards Saudi Arabia.

Coalition forces intercepted the drone while it was still in Yemen’s airspace.

A second drone also launched from Amran on Tuesday evening was intercepted by coalition forces. The device was headed for Khamis Mushayt, according to the coalition.

Arab coalition spokesman Col. Turki Al-Maliki said on Tuesday the Iranian-backed militia’s continued attempted attacks would end in failure.

Al-Maliki says that the coalition uses the best measures on operational matters to intercept Houthi attacks and protect civilians.

Al-Maliki pointed out that the recent repeated militant attempts by the Houthis are the result of significant losses among its elements and equipment.

The coalition announced that they successfully destroyed three Houthi drones and intercepted six ballistic missiles targeting Saudi Arabia over 24 hours.

In January, a drone targeted a Yemeni government base during a military parade, allegedly killing six people and wounding many others, including several senior officers.

Analysis of the attack indicates that a variant of an Ababil T drone, referred to as a Qasef 1 by Houthi forces, was used to attack the parade.

In January, Al-Maliki announced the targeting of seven militia military facilities in Sanaa, explaining that the raids targeted drone storage areas, manufacturing and repair workshops, and launch platforms, as well as training facilities for terrorist operations.

In other news, Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they had fired multiple ballistic missiles toward Saudi Arabia’s Najran airport in the southwest of the kingdom on Tuesday morning.

Earlier in August, 10 drones were fired at the Shaybah natural gas liquefaction plant in Saudi Arabia, near the UAE border – the Houthis claim responsibility for the attack.

Official Iranian media have acknowledged supplying the missiles to militias and coupists in Yemen.

Yemeni political analyst Kamel Al-Khodany affirmed that Houthis’ terror cannot be separated from the terrors of Hezbollah in Libya and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in Iraq, which all supported by Iran.

In an interview with The Reference, Al-Khodany said the Houthi militia is backed by Iran, and the drones it acquired are Iranian-manufactured drones.

He pointed out that there are large numbers of Iranian experts carrying out the tasks of training the Houthis on the use of drones, as well as maximize the capabilities of Houthi in the electronic war.

He further commended the Saudi defenses and the Arab coalition in targeting Iranian sources of danger, drones and missile stores.