Yemen's Strike on Riyadh's King Abdullah Financial District: A Message to Saudi Arabia

First, targeting the Saudi capital, Riyadh, by the Yemeni Armed Forces has become normalized, but, um, most of the targets, or all of them, were directly targeting either King Khalid Airport or Aramco facilities or things connected to them.

But what is new in the Yemeni operations today is targeting the King Abdullah Financial District.

This center, which spans a vast area, first of all, in Riyadh's geography, is home to major financial companies.

It is viewed within Saudi Arabia as a very important part of Saudi Arabia's high-quality investments.

Yemen had previously threatened to target it if Saudi Arabia continued targeting civilians.

And today, the first message was sent. By the way, if we look at the building that was targeted, military experts who have seen these images tend to think that the building was hit by a Yemeni drone, at the very least.

It carries only between thirty and fifty kilos of explosives.

But if it had been hit—and Yemen has the capability to do that— if it had been hit by a ballistic missile or a cruise missile, we might have seen this building, I mean, collapse completely to the ground.

So, based on this military assessment, I think Yemen is sending a bigger message with this strike than simply wanting to target the building.

By targeting it this time with a drone, it sent a message to Saudi Arabia that these financial institutions, which are one of the pillars of the Saudi economy, just as we previously targeted Aramco, airports, and others,

we are capable of targeting them, capable of hitting them.

This ti—this time, we are sending you a drone, but if the crimes happen again Yemen may go further and launch a ballistic missile, for example.

And when we talk about the explosive warhead of a ballistic missile, we're talking about two hundred, five hundred, and one thousand kilos…

Meaning, these are huge numbers. They will undoubtedly cause widespread damage.

A Saudi cannot imagine it, given the weakness of Saudi air defenses.

And the American, French, and other nationalities who brought radars and defense systems to Saudi Arabia to defend Aramco and others against this Yemeni missile or projectile.

So this is a strategic message. I believe this is an important message.

The Saudi should read it carefully to stop targeting civilians, but if he continues his crimes and massacres against the Yemeni people, I believe the Yemeni armed forces will send a much bigger message than the one they sent today,

despite the strategic nature of this message.

Saudi Arabia is now, I believe, in a difficult position.

I mean, perhaps if it had the wisdom and the determination, it would have gone to extend a hand of peace to Yemen and tried to resolve this crisis, which has continued for more than twelve years.

But, uh, the Saudi leadership, unfortunately, and the Saudi regime lack this wisdom to overcome all these losses.

Imagine, Professor Ahmad, today twenty billion dollars were wiped from the Saudi stock market at Sunday's opening as a result of the Yemeni targeting, in just a few hours.

What would it mean if Yemen continued its attacks?

It means Saudi Arabia's immediate losses which will affect the future of the Saudi economy, will be very large Perhaps the regime will be shaken to its foundations by these attacks.