Alwaght- Yemeni Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf Abdullah has warned about the danger of the participation of the illegal Zionist entity in massive US-led naval drills to be held in the Red Sea next week.
According to reports, Yemen’s top diplomat sounded the alarm on Wednesday, saying the upcoming military activities are of suspicious nature to be held under the guise of the US-led International Maritime Exercise (IMX).
The so-called IMX, which began on Monday with the participation of dozens of countries and will last for nearly three weeks until February 17, will be conducted in the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, and the northern Indian Ocean.
In a statement, carried by Yemen’s official Saba News Agency, Sharaf Abdullah warned of the consequences of the region slipping into an arena of conflict and new international military alliances under the pretext of combating terrorism and piracy and boosting regional security.
He said there are suspicious agendas that in reality exist and schemes to turn the Red Sea region and the Arabian Sea into an area of direct and proxy conflict.
The Yemeni foreign minister said peoples and countries of the region are the first victims of such military campaigns and drills carried out and called for by Israel and the US.
“What the Zionist entity and the US Central Command announced about the naval drills in the region is nothing more than a provocative display of naval military power, and through which Israel is trying to confirm messages of domination and threat to the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, in the hope of boosting the trend toward further normalization and intimidation,” Sharaf Abdullah said.
While he called for close monitoring of the activities of Tel Aviv in the region, Yemen’s top diplomat also called on the Zionist entity, Bahrain, and the UAE to avoid trying to make any foolish escalation, provocation, or uncalculated movements along the Yemeni coast.
Sharaf Abdullah also called on Iran, Russia, and China to seriously deal with such suspicious moves by Tel Aviv and Washington, which have supported a Saudi-led military coalition in its brutal war on Yemenis during the past seven years.
