Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Saudi Arabia’s army divisions entered Yemen to suppress Shiite rebellion there.

According to the Middle East media, military units crossed the border on Monday and attack inland moving on several fronts by using all kinds of modern weaponry – tanks, rockets, artillery, jets and helicopters Apache.

Air attacks hit on bases of rebels in the border area and on Sada’s provincial capital – centre of Shiite rebellion. From the start of operation it has been arrested 965 Shiite diversionists on the Saudi-Yemen border.

Yemen has united itself quite recently after country’s division into Northern (Saudi Arabia and the U.S. stood behind it) and Southern (it was under the guardianship of the ex-USSR) parts. But it failed to obtain real uniting of the country.

The current confrontation will most likely be used (and probably be provoked) within conflicts between the West to which Saudi Arabia orients to and Iran, the largest Shiite state of the world. In any case last week in Baku Ariel Cohen, a specialist of Herritage Foundation, claimed: Today we are speaking that Iran support terrorist organizations not only in Lebanon and Gaza Strip, not only Hamas and Hezbollah, but also terrorists in Yemen, a brotherly country which is weak even without that and fights for its territorial integrity and sovereignty”.

Then he voiced an opinion that Iranian regime’s provocations towards Sunni Arab countries and entire international community by its nuclear program should get the frozen mitt through regime of sanctions.

“Sanctions should be applied in such a way to make Iran to open its nuclear program for full inspection of the International Atomic Energy Agency and open all its earlier-secreted sites. I consider that international community has been waiting for many years, but Tom harks, and lunches at his ease. They (Iran) keep on building up their nuclear program. It is absolutely clear that they try to increase percentage of enrichment. We are already talking of not 3-5% for reactor. We see that they try to produce already 20% uranium under the pretext of medical uranium and then continue building vast centrifuges to manufacture military uranium in industrial volumes,” Mr. Cohen said.

As for the fact of Sunni-Shiite war, it turned out that Sunnite Arab regimes that once provoked a civil war in Yemen have broken down earlier than Iran.

Nevertheless, Mr. Cohen has a large-scale program of conciliation on Iran.

“The Iranian Leadership failed to speak truth, meet the IAEA rules, inform about development and availability of nuclear sites, and that is why it is necessary to impose not simple sanctions but sanctions with teeth for Iran. In particular, sanctions to make the Iranian Leadership to implement the demands of the international community and the United Nations, and the demands set for Tehran by almost all great powers,” Mr. Cohen said.

According to Mr. Cohen’s estimate, other options will face much more problems.

“There is an option of military actions. Of course, nobody wants to launch military actions as all diplomatic measures palette has not been exhausted. There is also another option that ahs not been used by the US Leadership. It is an option of regime change. Grave work in this direction was not conducted but this summer’s demonstrations in Iran showed that the regime is unpopular and especially it is unpopular among the elite and youth, i.e. the most advanced part of the Iranian society. To my personal regret, this option was not used. Maybe in the future its use will become necessary. It depends on political will and reaction of the Iranian government. Currently the Iranian government is set minimum demands, in particular opening of its nuclear program. Speech is neither of human rights nor of concrete stoppage of support form terrorist organizations throughout the whole Middle East,” Mr. Cohen said.

25.11.2009 09:52