Socotra’s fall reveals goals of Saudi Arabia, UAE in Yemen: Sheikh al-Harizi

MAHRA, June 24 (YPA) – Sheikh Ali Salem al-Harizi, leader of the popular resistance in Mahra province, on Wednesday said the fall of Socotra Archipelago province revealed goals of Saudi Arabia and the UAE and false slogans of their intervention in Yemen.

“Yemenis’ first enemy is Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and the Yemeni people today realize the ambitions of the two countries in their country, “Sheikh al-Harizi said in a statement to “Al-Mahriya” TV channel.

Sheikh al-Harizi warned Saudi-led coalition against repeating the Socotra scenario in Mahra, calling on Mahra’s sons working with the Saudi forces to leave work with them and engage in defending their province from the coalition’s plots that aim to control it.

“I call on the Mahra people to defend their province from the Saudi and Emirati forces,” he said. “We will deal with the Southern Transitional Council’s militias as an enemy and will confront them with force.”

He indicated that Saudi Arabia and the UAE want to liquidate the opposers through the transitional council’s militias that “will not rule the south”, stressing that “Mahra is not like Socotra.”

YPA