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Yemen warring sides’ talks show Saudi war 'all-out failure'

Friday, 14 December 2018 2:04 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 14 December 2018 7:20 PM ]

The UN-brokered peace talks between the warring sides in Yemen indicate that Saudi Arabia’s military aggression against the impoverished Arab nation has been an “all-out failure”, says a political commentator.

“The Saudi-led war has turned out to be an all-out failure, a war which has been going on for four years with the aim of destroying or eliminating the Houthis and the Ansarullah, and now the result is that Ansarullah is being recognized by the UN as an indispensable part of the political process (in Yemen)... That is a dismal Saudi failure. At the same time it is a big achievement for the Houthis,” Ali Rizk told Press TV in an interview on Friday.

The Saudis "couldn't defeat the Houthis" despite the fact that they had the support of the US and some of their other allies, the commentator added.

"So I think as I said it is a big setback for the Saudis and another strategic failure for Saudi Arabia,” he added.

A round of talks between delegations from Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and the country’s former Saudi-backed government kicked off on December 6 in the Swedish town of Rimbo under the auspices of the UN in an effort to find a political solution to the Yemen conflict and end a brutal Saudi-led war on the country.

Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating military campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the aim of bringing the government of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing the country’s Houthi Ansarullah movement.

The aggression is estimated to have left 56,000 Yemenis dead.