Saudi war on Yemen serves US, Israel interests: Mark Glenn

Press TV has conducted an interview with Mark Glenn, a political commentator in Idaho, to discuss Saudi Arabia’s ongoing military campaign against Yemen.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Nearly two months into this war, has Saudi Arabia been able to reach its goals?

Glenn: Well clearly they have not because the Yemenis are still fighting. The Saudis of course working in collusion with the United States and with the Israelis hoped that this would be a quick blood bath that would bring an end to what really was an extension of the Iranian (Islamic) Revolution 1979.

What has got the Saudis and the Americans and the Israelis so worried is that we are going to see a repeat of what took place when the Iranians fought and won a successful revolution against a Western-backed tyrant, established a sovereign nation that now is basically immune from all of the course of pressures that the West and Israel try to place on her to the point where they actually force her to come to the negotiating table in order to do business with her.

Press TV: Why is it that we have so far seen no concrete action by the United Nations to put an end to the Saudi aggression?

Glenn: You have to remember that the United Nations despite the flowery language that the people use in trying to describe it as a sovereign entity, it is situated in the United States, situated in New York City. Most of the funding for the United Nations comes from the United States and the United Nations despite the fact that every once in a while, just for mere reasons of public relations, will issue a statement about condemning the aggression of Israel or whatever, but at the end of the day the United Nations is going to do exactly what the United States tells it to do and the United States is going to do exactly what Israel tells it to do.

So in this case the United Nations is not going to issue any kind of condemnation against what is going on because clearly it is in the United States and Israel’s interest that the slaughter of these freedom fighters in Yemen continue in order to prevent a larger role that Iran would play in the region that would threaten American and Israeli interests.

Press TV: And how optimistic are you about the upcoming Geneva talks?

Glenn: Well when it comes to my country, United States negotiating anything with anyone particularly with another Middle Eastern country and particularly with Iran, we have to understand that the United States just not comes to this negotiating process, looking at Iran as a sovereign nation. My feeling on this is that the United States is doing this really as a tactic. There is an old saying in the Middle East that once the camel gets its nose under the tent, its body is sure to follow.

And I see this is just another tactic the United States is using in order to worm her way into the Iranian political system so that eventually bit by bit United States would know a way at the protective shield that Iran has built up for herself against Western and Zionist imperialist aggression.

So if the Iranians can hold their own, I am sure that this counts for something but at the end of the day if things do not go the way that the United States wants them to go then we will see …

Press TV: But what [about] the upcoming Geneva talks on Yemen?

Glenn: Again this is just for PR. This has nothing to do with bringing to an end the hostilities. This is being done to bring an Arab legitimacy to cloak what is just naked aggression on the part of the Saudis.

So again, this is like I have said before, this is Hollywoodism, this is theaterism, this is just a way of painting Saudi Arabia as the responsible partner in all of this nation of laws who wants to live in peace with her neighbor, but at the end of the day the Saudis will continue the butchery as they have been now since March.  

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