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🚨🇸🇦 From Sanaa to Riyadh: The Sequence the World Prefers Not to Read! For four years the border between the kingdom and the Houthis stayed quiet. It was not peace, and nobody pretended otherwise, but it was a working arrangement that held because both sides understood its unwritten rules. Chief among them was the rule of the skies over Sanaa. Iran sent a plane carrying a Houthi delegation to Sanaa without seeking Saudi authorisation, breaking a practice that had stood for a decade. That was no navigational slip. It was a deliberate test of how much patience remained. The wider strategic question reaches beyond Sanaa airport to Bab al-Mandab. The ability to threaten Saudi Arabia from the air and international shipping at sea gives the Houthis two instruments of coercion, pressure on the kingdom’s economy and pressure on the countries whose trade depends on the Red Sea. If the Iranian flight also brought Revolutionary Guard personnel into Sanaa, that would raise a further question about Tehran’s role in preparing the escalation. The stakes would extend well beyond flight permissions to the use of military force to extract political concessions and dictate the terms of regional security. The sequence points to a wider aim of escalating the conflict to serve Tehran’s regional agenda. What the Houthis did next turned a dispute over a flight into a decision about war. After the strike on Sanaa airport, which they blamed on Riyadh although the Saudi-backed Yemeni government claimed it, they could have protested, appealed, or gone to the mediators. They chose otherwise. They fired missiles and drones at Abha International Airport, a civilian airport in southern Saudi Arabia, and warned airlines to stay out of Saudi airspace. These were the first attacks they had claimed against the kingdom since the truce began in 2022. A movement that wants de-escalation does not announce the end of it on Telegram. From there, each step followed the logic of the one before. An attack on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport killed 13 people and wounded hundreds. Then the Houthis claimed strikes on Aramco facilities in Dhahran and Riyadh. And today, an administrative building belonging to Aramco in the capital, an office of engineers, accountants and clerks, took falling shrapnel. The damage was minor, thankfully. That owes everything to the competence of Saudi air defenses and nothing to the restraint of the attackers. 🔴 When a member of the Houthi political council says Saudi economic and oil facilities will be targeted unless Sanaa airport is allowed to operate flights to all destinations, that is not a grievance being negotiated. It is coercion with a missile behind it. When civilian airports and corporate offices are the chosen targets, the right word is terrorism, and the question follows naturally: why do so many editors in Washington and Brussels hesitate to write it? The hesitation is not innocent. It rests on a habit of treating every Gulf conflict as a quarrel between equals,where the observer’s only duty is to counsel both sides to calm down. But calm cannot be demanded of the party that did not choose the fight. The kingdom did not send the plane. It did not fire first on a civilian airport. It did not declare the truce over. Those decisions were made in Sanaa,with the backing of Tehran, and pretending otherwise is not neutrality. It is a failure of memory. If the deliberate targeting of airports and economic installations does not draw a clear, united condemnation, then the standard is convenience,not principle, and every state in the region is entitled to draw its own conclusions about what protection the rulebook actually offers. The Houthis have chosen their path. The only open question is whether those who claim to defend the order of the region will say so before the next missile, or after it. 🔴 The kingdom asked for a truce and kept it for four years, and the ones who ENDED it should not be allowed to REWRITE how!

🚨🇺🇸🇸🇦 The Houthis are not just a Saudi problem. They are a regional and global problem, says former US Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo, speaking to @AlArabiya_Eng and calling for collective efforts to confront the Houthi terrorist threat. — Iranian support has enabled the Houthis to reach places they could not reach before. — Weakening Tehran’s financial and military capabilities would make the Houthi threat easier to counter. — Iran is attacking fellow Muslim countries while, he says, it has not fired a missile into Israel in a long time. 🔴 Pompeo’s remarks underscore the danger of Tehran arming a terrorist group with increasingly destructive capabilities and extending its reach. A group chanting death to America now threatens civilians, global energy supplies and international shipping. Its capacity to disrupt the world’s economic arteries could make it even more dangerous than ISIS. The world must unite behind effective collective deterrence. Saudi and international warnings are not propaganda. They describe a catastrophe already unfolding.

🚨🇮🇷 The Tehran visit by Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman @kbsalsaud 🇸🇦, alongside Pakistan’s Asim Munir 🇵🇰 and Türkiye’s Ibrahim Kalın 🇹🇷, is an effort to avert renewed war between the United States 🇺🇸, Israel and Iran and protect the region from its consequences. — This visit supports Qatari and Pakistani mediation and gives Iran a last chance to prevent a wider war that could engulf Iran, the Gulf states and the wider region, including countries without borders with Iran. — Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan will defend their people, territory and critical infrastructure. An Iranian attack on any member would trigger the Mecca Pact’s collective defence commitments to safeguard their countries and regional security. — I believe this visit had nothing to do with the Houthis, and they were not on the meeting’s agenda. They are a terrorist militia with no value or strategic weight, even to Iran. — Renewed war without a credible plan to contain escalation could send shocks through energy markets, shipping and global trade. Preventing that outcome requires serious diplomacy and a clear readiness to respond to aggression. 🔴 Mohammed Alhamed

🚨🇸🇦 Update: What does daily life look like in Riyadh and across Saudi Arabia amid Houthi terrorist attacks? 🔵 King Khalid International Airport reopened and resumed flight operations today. 🔵 Events, conferences, concerts and entertainment activities continue. 🔵 Restaurants, cafés and public spaces remain busy as usual, late into the night. 🔵 The Kingdom continues to welcome heads of state and host diplomatic visits, cultural exchanges and entertainment events.

If Iran carries out its threats, regional strategic patience will end, pushing Gulf to help bring down the regime Tehran can gamble on Washington’s politics. It can’t escape the consequences next door. —🤡🇮🇷:”If America attacks us,we’ll hit our neighbors—we can’t hit America”🤷‍♂️

🚨🇸🇦 Riyadh residents share their daily life experiences and their sense of safety in the Saudi capital with Al Arabiya English presenter Leigh-Ann Gerrans amid regional tensions. — “I really do feel like we all have a good sense of security here. We do feel safe and taken care of.” — “I’m reaching my seventh month here in Riyadh, and I can actually officially say that it feels like home.” — “There’s no better place to raise kids than in Saudi. And even now, I do still feel safe here. Life goes on.”

🚨✈️ Oman’s 🇴🇲 SalamAir has resumed direct flights from Muscat to Tehran, Iran 🇮🇷, after months of suspension, with two weekly services planned—despite sweeping U.S. 🇺🇸 sanctions targeting Iranian aviation. — Washington has explicitly warned that anyone doing business with sanctioned Iranian airlines risks being cut off from the global financial system. — Oman plays a productive and important role in mediating between the U.S. and Iran. Has the U.S. authorized these flights? 🤷🏻‍♂️@SecScottBessent

Fareed, there is a bigger picture here. Reports point to global and regional actors enabling Iran to supply the Houthi terrorist militia with advanced weapons and technology. Yet Saudi Arabia and the coalition remain determined to defeat them and end their threat for good. Haykel @BernardHaykel is right about their radicalism, brutality and aggression. No more deals. No turning back. But I disagree with his assessment that the Houthis cannot be defeated. I believe Saudi Arabia and Yemeni forces will crush them and restore Sanaa to Yemen’s legitimate government within weeks or months. 👌🏻🇸🇦 What’s missing from this interview is any acknowledgment of the innocent lives the Houthis have taken. Ending their terrorist threat is essential to regional security, global trade and freedom of navigation.

🚨🇸🇦🇺🇸 Saudi Arabia is confronting a Houthi terrorist threat backed by regional and international actors, endangering American interests and global security. Gen. Jack Keane’s @gen_jackkeane warning on Fox News highlights the danger posed by Iran 🇮🇷, its proxies, and their advanced weapons suppliers. — Houthi missiles threaten the Kingdom, international shipping, American and global interests. — Washington and its allies must join Saudi Arabia’s military efforts to eliminate the Houthi terrorist threat, impose crippling sanctions on its backers, and pursue those who arm, finance and back it. — The international community will bear the cost of a stronger Houthi terrorist militia. Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 has decided to eliminate this threat. There is no turning back.