Houthi leaders threaten Al-Sami'i in Taiz...and the latter refuses to return to Sana'a
English - Wednesday 10 May 2023 الساعة 05:21 pm
Taiz, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
The leader loyal to the Houthi militia - the Iranian arm in Yemen - Sultan Al-Sami'i received death threats from security leaders at his current residence in the city of Al-Hawban, Taiz Governorate.
Informed sources said: Elements of Houthi leaders belonging to Saada governorate - the birthplace of militia leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi - entered into an altercation with al-Sami'i's escorts while the latter was touring al-Hawban and trying to visit the headquarters of some of the authority's institutions run by the militias there, and the differences almost reached the point of an exchange of fire. The fire had it not been for the intervention of some leaders loyal to the Houthis from the people of Taiz and their disengagement.
Al-Sami'i had announced his arrival in Taiz Governorate on the twenty-second of last April and wrote on his official page on Twitter: (We have arrived - with God's help - the capital of Al-Jund region), after he was prevented by militia security points from entering Sana'a airport to participate in the reception of the Houthi prisoners who They were released as part of the prisoner exchange deal that was carried out between the Houthi militia and the legitimate government in mid-April.
On that day, Al-Sami'i wrote on his page: Before we arrived at the airport, we were prevented from entering by one of the new idiots, his name is Faisal Lasa, who holds a high rank, God knows where they got him from. And he added: O fools, this is our homeland, not your private homeland.. Oh God, extend my life to see the end of these....
Then he concluded: Yemen is not an estate that belongs to a group, a side, a party, a sect or a tribe.. Yemen belongs to all Yemenis, from Al-Mahra to Saada.
Al-Sami'i's position at the time was met with a media attack by some militia activists and media figures, who described him as a regionalist, a stirrer of strife, and a man seeking to achieve his personal interests.
According to the sources, he refused to return to Sana'a and insisted on continuing to be present in the Al-Hawban area of Taiz governorate, despite several mediations by some militia leaders who contacted him repeatedly, and some of them visited him to his residence in Taiz and met him, trying to convince him to return to Sana'a and continue his duties as a member of the Political Council. The supreme authority of the Houthis, however, rejected all these mediations and responded to them: Tell Al-Mashat, Ahmed Hamed, and the security and intelligence leaders, the truth of Saada, that Al-Sami'i represents the region of Al-Jund and does not represent himself, and what happened at Sana'a airport in Ramadan is not an individual act or a new one, but rather a position within a series of procedures and regional and racist policies originating from the regions of Saada and its sectarian leaders that see only themselves and do not want anyone other than their sect or region to participate, express or represent any Yemeni citizens.
This is not the first time that Al-Sami'i disagrees with the leaders of the Houthi militias, as these disagreements have already been repeated, especially with the director of the Houthi presidential office, Ahmed Hamed, and some Houthi leaders in the security and intelligence apparatus, who believe that Al-Sami'i's presence in the Political Council is unacceptable and must be excluded.
The sources confirm that the leaders of the Houthi militia tried several times to seek to exclude Al-Sami'i from the framework of the Political Council, but their efforts failed because they received directions from Iranian leaders and others affiliated with the Lebanese Hezbollah, which are leaders that have strong relations with Al-Sami'i, as they were the ones who recruited him and persuaded him to abandon his association with the Yemeni Socialist Party. He supported Iran and its project before the Houthi militia carried out its coup on September 21, 2014, through financing the opening of the Al-Sahat channel, which broadcasts from Lebanon, and owns it and supervises its management himself.
