Assistant Defense Minister reveals Israeli enemy’s plans that fell in Yemen
SANAA, Oct. 5 (YPA) – Assistant Defense Minister of the Salvation Government Major General Ali Al-Kohlani on Monday affirmed that Yemen was the object of ambitions for the Zionist entity and colonial powers, with the complicity of the former regime.
“The enemy’s eyes are on Bab Al-Mandab and the Yemeni islands,” Maj. Gen. Al-Kohlani said in an interview with Al-Masirah Satellite Channel on Monday.
Al-Kohlani pointed out that the presidency and the security services leaders in the former regime had been proceeding with normalization with the Zionist entity. “The visits between the former regime and the Israeli enemy were secret and limited to certain levels.”
He indicated that the former Yemeni president (Ali Abdullah Saleh) was ruled by foreign ambassadors, topped by the US ambassador.
The Assistant Minister of Defense asserted that the September 21 revolution destroyed the dreams of normalization and the ambitions of the enemy in Yemen.
Maj. Gen. Al-Kohlani also stressed that the Palestine issue is the first issue for Yemen, and “in our military doctrine as Yemeni armed forces, the first enemy is the Israeli entity.”
He explained that the main goals of normalization with the Israeli enemy are to occupy the region, militarily or economically, indicating that the UAE and Egypt were stations for the passage of Zionist products to the countries of the region.
Major General Al-Kohlani said, “After the year 2006, the US ambassador came to me, and asked us to give them about a third of the residential city (in Sa’wan area, where the US embassy is located in Sanaa) to be headquarters for his meetings and activities, and we refused that completely.”
The Assistant Minister of Defense revealed that the commercial exchange and the arrival of Israeli goods to the Yemeni market came under the title of the “GATT” agreement and other indirect titles.
He continued, saying: “We noticed during the period of work in the economic corporation the extent of the damage caused by commercial goods and pesticides manufactured in Israel.”
YPA