Yemen: The journalist and writer Abdel Bari Atwan wrote an article in Rai Al-Youm newspaper, saying that the two Yemeni attacks that hit the Ras Tanura oil port earlier this month, and a headquarters and an oil refinery in Riyadh, constitute a milestone in the Yemeni war, which will start its seventh year a few days later.  

First: The Ras Tanura attack, which was the first of its kind, means that oil exports, whose backbone is this port, are no longer safe and are more vulnerable to threats.

Second: The bombing of a headquarters and an oil refinery in the heart of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, constitutes a huge psychological and moral blow to the Saudi leadership, which derives its legitimacy by providing safety for its citizens. Most of the residents of the capital saw the pillars of flames and smoke that covered the sky as a result of the fire.

Third: The arrival of Yemeni drones and missiles to the oil facilities of the giant Aramco company in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Ras Tanura and Jizan will greatly reduce its financial market value in the local and international markets, while the Saudi regime relies on them and its shares to compensate the huge deficits in Its budget and to finance the necessary infrastructure projects.

Fourth: The failure of the US-made Saudi defense systems, for which tens of billions of dollars have been paid, if not more, to acquire them is a lightning blow to the US military industry and inflicts a lot of damage on its reputation in the global markets.

Atwan added: “This intensification of attacks on Saudi oil installations, airports and ports came with the current escalation of the war in Marib to control the huge Yemeni oil and gas reserves."

And he added: “These Yemeni drones and ballistic missiles sent by their bombs a clear message to the Saudi leadership saying do not expect your oil installations and your infrastructure to be blessed in safety, as long as your aggression continues, imposing siege and starvation on our people, closing the port of Hodeidah, preventing our energy and food supplies, and trying to impede our forces' seizure of oil and gas reserves in Marib."

He concluded by saying: “Brigadier General Yahya Sare'e stressed that the retaliatory attacks will continue as long as the US-Saudi aggression is continued, which means that the coming days may witness new attacks.”