Biden’s regional trip aimed to use Arab, Muslim money to serve ‘israel’, says top Yemen official

Mohammed Ali al-Houthi made the remarks while addressing a massive ceremony in the Yemeni capital Sana’a to mark Eid al-Ghadir, an occasion when Shia Muslims celebrate the anniversary of the day Prophet Mohammad appointed Imam Ali, the first Shia Imam, as his successor and the leader of Muslims, Yemen’s al-Masirah television network reported on Sunday. 

Houthi said Biden, like his predecessors and former US presidents, did not come to West Asia “to serve Islamic causes, but he came to serve Jews and Israel … [and] to spend Arabs’ and Muslims’ money to protect Israel.”

He also noted that the summit of the leaders of the United States and the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which was held in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, was not on behalf of Islam, just as it was not focused on humanitarian issues.

“The whole summit was for Israel. We condemn whatever comes out of this insignificant summit that was held only to serve the usurper,” he added.

Houthi further warned “the usurping Zionist regime” that it will be defeated, stressing that the Yemeni people and the Arab nation are still alive, even if some Arab states normalize their ties with Israel.

“The usurper regime will not be able to gain power through compromising regimes, as it did not gain power through the normalization of ties with some Arab states in the past,” he said.

Biden arrived in the Israeli-occupied territories on Wednesday and met with the Israeli officials as well as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

He later traveled to Saudi Arabia on Friday to hold meetings with King Salman, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and other high-ranking officials.

Speaking at the GCC+3 summit in the Saudi port city of Jeddah on Saturday, Biden said America would not leave the Middle East, saying any vacuum left would be filled by Washington’s rivals.

He warned the Arab states participating in the summit of efforts by certain countries to undermine “the rules-based order.”

Biden said that he now aimed to use his joint meeting with some of the Middle East Arab state heads as an opportunity to assert US leadership not only over the region, but also over other regions across the globe.

The summit brought together Biden with the heads of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq.

The summit’s host, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), claimed the meeting was held “at a time when the world is witnessing great challenges.”

In addition to Israel, the United States itself has been cited time and again by Iranian officials and many world leaders as the root cause of instability in the Middle East, and elsewhere.

The Islamic Republic believes cooperation among neighboring countries, without foreign meddling, is the only way to achieve sustainable peace and stability among regional states.