Hujjat al-Islam al-Khalisi:

Saudi-led coalition aims at fighting regional Islamic resistance movements

Rasa – An Iraqi Shi’a cleric said the recent so-called anti-terror coalition created by Saudi Arabia is not aimed at fighting ISIL, but against the Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine.

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Date: 31 December 2015 - 18:05

RNA – Hujjat al-Islam Jawad al-Khalisi, an Iraqi cleric and scholar, described Saudi Arabia’s attack on Yemen as a “huge mistake” and added that has been one of the greatest mistakes and decisions in history.

The Saudi military has been engaged in airstrikes against Yemen since late March 2015. The aim, as Riyadh has claimed, is to undermine the Ansarullah (Houthis) resistance movement and restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd-Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.

More than 7,500 people have been killed and over 14,000 others injured since the strikes began. The Saudi war has also taken a heavy toll on the impoverished country’s facilities and infrastructure.

Hujjat al-Islam al-Khalisi said that Saudi-led coalition of Islamic countries against so-called "terrorism" has announced that its aim is not to deal with the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group, but rather to fight regional resistance movements, which are at the forefront of resistance against the Zionists.

Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Malaysia, Pakistan and several other African and Persian Gulf states are among the countries named in a statement announced by Saudi media.

The Iraqi scholar said that disagreement between some members of the coalition has created the suspicion that this coalition or remains only in writing or is divided and will not bring terrorism in the Middle East to an end alone, stressing that Saudi Arabia itself fuels the problems in the region. “Solving these issues requires wisdom, reason and logical thinking,” he said.

Hujjat al-Islam al-Khalisi added that with these conditions, it remains to be seen how the Saudi-created alliance, which had no coordination between its members from the beginning, will deal with regional terrorist groups such as ISIL.

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