BEIRUT: The Lebanese Communist Party denounced Thursday the "sectarian" intervention by a Saudi-led alliance in Yemen, after the force launched deadly airstrikes targeting Houthi rebels.
“While all Gulf countries participate in this sectarian war and mobilize armies and resources for it, and while intimidation is rising from every corner, especially between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the Yemeni people live ... in great tragedy that will only result in more disasters and fragmentation,” the party said in a statement.
Warplanes from Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched strikes against the Shiite Muslim rebels fighting to oust Yemen's president.
Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV reported that the kingdom was contributing 100 warplanes to the operation - dubbed "Storm of Resolve" - and more than 85 more were provided by the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco and Sudan.
Iran denounced the assault on the Houthi militia group, which it backs, and warned that the move would worsen the sectarian tensions fuelling wars around the Middle East.
By creating deeper divides between religious groups in the Middle East, the new developments “allow the success of imperialist-Zionist plans,” the LCP said.
“The flames of this new shattering war... are nurtured by reactionary Arab and regional states to serve their dreams of expansion and control,” the party added, calling on the leftist groups in the Arab world to take to the streets.
“The Arab peoples and their leftist and democratic factions, especially in the Gulf, are called on to take to the streets and act in all allowed forms to stop the war,” the statement added.
The party said the solution to the crisis was to “open the door of dialogue between Yemeni political powers independently from foreign intervention, be it Saudi or Iranian, Arab or foreign.”
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