Al-Houthi is a terrorist organization...waiting for a blacklist and a test for the credibility of the "National Defense"
English - Wednesday 26 October 2022 الساعة 09:27 am
Mocha, NewsYemen, private:
At a time when its sources talked about tendencies to issue a blacklist of companies, people and organizations supporting the Houthi militia, the contradictions of legitimacy still threaten the success of the procedures for classifying the militia of Iran’s arm as a terrorist organization.
On Saturday, the National Defense Council issued a decision to classify the Houthi militia as a terrorist organization, and directed the government to "complete the necessary procedures to implement the decision."
The government was expected to start taking practical steps on the way to implementing the decision, or to announce a series of measures that will be taken to implement the decision, but it took the initiative to announce the caveats and reassurance and ask for ideas on the decision.
Yesterday, the meeting of the Ministries of Finance, Planning and International Cooperation and the Central Bank of Yemen, chaired by Prime Minister Dr. Moeen Abdul-Malik, according to the state-run Saba Agency, circulated what they called “ideas and proposals” that are required to be taken as measures to implement the decision of the National Defense Council, provided that citizens and their humanitarian conditions are not affected in areas under militias control.
This matter was considered by the head of the Finance and Banking Department at the Faculty of Administrative Sciences at Hadhramout University. Dr. Muhammad Salih Al-Kassadi, during his interview with (NewsYemen). A “contradiction” because it is not possible to take measures against the militias that control the northern governorates, with an emphasis on not harming the conditions of the residents living in their areas of control, explaining that any measures taken against these militias, which are considered the authority in those areas, will be reflected on the population and citizens in their areas. This is the responsibility of the terrorist group. Which does not appreciate the interests of the Yemenis, whether in its areas of control or in areas under the control of legitimacy.
Al-Kasadi pointed out that there are many measures that the government can take, and the Houthi militias will be affected by them, stressing at the same time the need to wait for the outcome of the government's moves in this regard.
With regard to the national capital, which was reassured by the government at its meeting, Dr. Al-Kassadi clarified that he meant the commercial groups and houses, the most prominent of which is the Hayel Saeed Anam Group of Companies.
The meeting had reassured the national capital that it would not be subjected to any damage as a result of the decision, and the Presidential Leadership Council and the government were keen to protect the commercial and industrial sector in the areas controlled by the terrorist Houthi militia, and to take all that ensures the smooth flow of goods and merchandise.
Despite the Defense Council’s announcement of the decision to be implemented, no international mediators of the negotiations between the legitimacy and the Houthis commented on that, and the government’s announcement increased the ambiguity of the international situation, and the Yemeni diplomat and former Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs “Mustafa Noaman” criticized the official announcements. And he said in a tweet on Twitter: “The authority that issues statements threatening its opponents while being certain of its blatant inability to implement them insults its dignity and the dignity of the country. The silence of the helpless is more dignified.”
Political writer Nabil al-Soufi, in a post on his Twitter account, criticized the government's moves, which he alluded to its confusion and inability, and said, "It would have been more honorable and better for the government to say: We cannot classify al-Houthi as a terrorist, because that would harm the twenty million people who fall under his control."
He added, "The strange thing is that legitimacy welcomed America's decision to designate Al Houthi as a terrorist group two years ago, and today it says it will study, guarantee and reduce," stressing that legitimacy continues to lose fronts and not achieve any political gains.
As for the journalist, Sayyaf Al-Gharbani, he mocked the government meeting that was held to discuss the "ideas and proposals" required to implement the decision to classify the Houthis, considering the meeting an affirmation of the government's ignorance of the meaning of "classification" or how to implement the decision.
In this regard, he sarcastically called for the government's assistance by presenting any ideas or proposals that would contribute to the implementation of the decision.
According to the official in the Ministry of Information, Osama Al-Shurmi, the government will publish a blacklist of "companies, people and organizations" after designating the Houthis as a terrorist group, saying: "Some of them will be a big surprise."
What are the possible economic actions?
The economic expert, Fares Al-Najjar, explained, during a television participation on the Yemen satellite channel, the most prominent economic measures that the government can take to implement the decision of the National Defense Council, all of which aim to dry up the sources of funding for those militias that have become terrorist, pointing out that these measures may cause a state of chaos. The suffering of the citizens in the areas under the control of the militias, but they are measures that must be taken, and they target the militias, not the people in their areas of control.
Al-Najjar pointed out that there are many entities and companies associated with and supporting terrorist militias, and therefore they must be dealt with as entities that support terrorism and issue legal and economic sanctions against them, whether they are merchants or businessmen.
He added that on the economic level, it is possible to further tighten the screws on the militias by repudiating the Stockholm Agreement and the armistice and closing Sanaa airport and the port of Hodeidah, considering that they are sources of funding for terrorist militias, pointing to the need to withdraw the communications sector from the militias' control. Being the largest financier of these militias, or finding alternative telecommunications companies, and benefiting from the increase in population in areas of legitimacy, instead of the revenues going to the militias.
Al-Najjar stressed the need to legalize financial transfers to militia areas, and make them through banks after transferring their main centers to the capital, Aden, as well as setting up a mechanism to limit tax revenues going to militias .
