Press Release
The American-British Conflict in the Red Sea has Nothing to do with Gaza or Palestine
(Translated)

The British Chatham House Institute revealed the American policy in the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Red Sea, through Iran’s actions carried out by the Houthis, which compete with British colonial policy in the same location.

The Chatham House Institute, the Institute for Studies in the Middle East and North Africa, had conducted an interview with the so-called Tariq Saleh - Brigadier General of the Giant Brigades on the western coast of Yemen, a member of the eight-member presidential council affiliated with the leadership of the so-called legitimacy - about the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, and he said: “What is happening has no connection to the events in Gaza,” stressing that “what is happening is a purely Iranian move to control the Bab al-Mandab Strait, similar to the Strait of Hormuz, which is controlled by Iran.” He accused Iran of supplying the Houthis with weapons, while “denying that the weapons arsenal in the Houthis’ possession may be is owned by the former Yemeni army”.

Chatham House’s interview with Tariq was reported by Aden al-Ghad Newspaper on Saturday, 2/3/2024, and it is considered a retraction of what his brother Yahya Saleh had stated ten days ago to a Greek newspaper, which was reported by Al-Umana'a Newspaper on 22/2/2024, in which he praised the Houthis for riding the wave of war on Gaza, he said: “Although many Yemeni citizens do not support the Houthis or their methods, they support their actions on behalf of the Palestinian people.” Regarding the question of who is behind the Houthis and who is arming them? “Their weapons are what remains of the Yemeni military arsenal when they seized power,” he said. Here lies the importance of the media and the political forces’ ownership of its machine to express what they have, and to convey their voice to the friend so that he knows and to the enemy so that he is warned.

In his interview with Chatham House, Tariq Saleh blamed “the Americans,” without naming them, for being behind the response of his forces from a distance of 700 meters from entering the port of Hodeidah years ago, raising the argument of “humanity” that they hid and did not show until today in Taiz and Ma’rib! Frankly speaking, America, through humanitarian organizations and its political influence have prevented the removal of the Houthis from the city of Hodeidah, due to the possibility of their fall if they were deprived of revenues from the port of Hodeidah and Britain, that Tariq Saleh works for in the city of Al-Mukha, adjacent to Hodeidah, and whose uncle Ali Saleh worked for. All those present take care of their interests, support their pawns, and protect them from the plots of others who seek to crush them.

The family of the perished Ali Saleh, which served the British throughout the period of its rule and made the people suffer the calamities and ruined people’s lives in all aspects of life, continues today to play this dirty role in implementing the plans of the British and sacrifices the blood of the people of Yemen to serve the colonial kuffar and to maintain its influence in Yemen. Therefore, the people of Yemen should depose this criminal family and throw it into a deep abyss, and bring its criminals before the judiciary to receive a just punishment, not to continue to enslave Yemen under the influence of the British.

Have you not seen how the Houthis (America's pawn) and Tariq (Britain's pawn) – each compete for the benefit of his master in their colonial struggle over Yemen – describe the Red Sea as international waters?! While they are purely Islamic waters that Europeans have been prevented from sailing in. It will return, Allah willing, with the return of Muslim authority to their hands in the second Khilafah Rashidah (rightly guided Caliphate) state on the method of the Prophethood, after it was taken away from them with the overthrow and demolition of their state, and placed in the hands of those who do not rule by Islam and turn their minds toward the enemies of the Muslims, those who fight their Deen, fight over their country, their massive resources, and their position at the heart of the world. Hizb ut Tahrir continues its work among and with the Ummah to expose the agent rulers and those who stand behind them, expose their plans, illuminate the path for the Ummah and work with it to establish the Islamic state again, which our Lord (swt) promised us and our Master Muhammad (saw) gave us the glad tidings of its return, it is a great obligation.

[وَعَدَ اللهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِينَهُمُ الَّذِي ارْتَضَى لَهُمْ وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّهُم مِّن بَعْدِ خَوْفِهِمْ أَمْناً يَعْبُدُونَنِي لَا يُشْرِكُونَ بِي شَيْئاً وَمَن كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ]

“Allāh has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession [to authority] upon the earth just as He granted it to those before them and that He will surely establish for them [therein] their religion which He has preferred for them and that He will surely substitute for them, after their fear, security, [for] they worship Me, not associating anything with Me. But whoever disbelieves¹ after that - then those are the defiantly disobedient” [An-Nur: 55].

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Yemen