By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

Saudi Arabia had a bitter taste of its own ‘poison’ yesterday when its capital echoed with a series of loud explosions as ballistic missiles and drones fired by Yemen’s defenders zeroed in on key military and industrial installations in Riyadh.

The Salman Air Base and other military headquarters and centres, including the defence and intelligence ministry, were targeted, resulting in heavy damage, though as usual the Saudis have not admitted the casualties and uttered the stereotyped lies that their air defence system foiled the attack by blasting the projectiles in midair.
Such tall claims have brought derision from military experts in the region who point out the weakness of Saudi Arabia’s American-supplied defences and inability to intercept the rapidly improving air power of the Ansarallah Movement, which after repeated warnings of reprisals that went unheeded by the aggressors, once again showed Yemen’s capability to penetrate deep inside enemy land.
The latest retaliation vis-a-vis the unabated crimes of the Wahhabi regime of Riyadh against the people of Yemen, who over the past five years have endured the killing by the aggressors of over a hundred thousand men, women, and children, ought to give second thoughts to the Saudis in continuing their US-UK backed state terrorism.
Yemen’s military spokesman Yahya Saree said the attacks also targeted enemy military installations in the Saudi occupied Yemeni provinces of Najran and Jizan, and vowed to carry out more powerful strikes, if Riyadh did not stop its bombing of civilians in Sana’a, Sa’ada, Hodeida, and other places.
As observers note, there is seriousness in the latest warning of the popular Ansarallah Movement, which has achieved significant victories on the ground in battles against the Saudi-, UAE-backed mercenary forces of the fugitive from justice, Mansour Hadi, whom the pro-Zionist western press wrongly calls ‘the internationally recognized president of Yemen’.

Saudi Arabia, which is also involved in infighting in Yemen with its coalition colleague the UAE, is now extremely vulnerable to more attacks from the Arab world’s poorest but iron-resolved country if it chooses to drag its senseless war.
According to retired Jordanian air force general, Mamoun Abu-Nowar, the latest developments were reason enough to make Saudi Arabia insecure about its military prowess, despite Riyadh’s unsubstantiated claims of intercepting missiles and drones.
He pointed out that “reaching Riyadh with that accuracy and targeting the ministry of defence and other military bases is a significant gain for the Ansarallah because they are winning now in Jawf, Marib, and provinces of Yemen.
Abu Nowar, as quoted by Qatar’s al-Jazeera network, added: “This makes the Saudis insecure and unstable for any investment in the future and it’s a big threat for the Saudi defence air system which I feel is a bit weak to intercept such missiles.”

With the Saudi economy already paralyzed by the Coronavirus pandemic which has forced the regime to reduce the large expatriate manpower and cancel this year’s Hajj pilgrimage that happens to be a significant annual money-earner for the occupiers of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, the Ansarallah promise to carry the war deep inside enemy territory, might accelerate the end of the spurious tribal kingdom set up by the British in 1932.
When this finally happens, it would indeed be a great achievement for Yemen in freeing from Najdi occupation the people of Arabia and liberating the eastern oil-rich region as well as Hijaz the Land of Divine Revelation, from the clutches of the pro-Zionist heretical Wahhabi clique – a nightmare indeed for both London and Washington.