The recent bombing of oil installations in Yanbu on the Red Sea, some 800 km north of the border of Yemen by the Ansarallah defenders, shows their influence among various groups deep inside the Arabian Peninsula that are fed up with the tyranny of British-created and American-supported Wahhabi regime in Riyadh.

Here’s a report in this regard by MintPress correspondent Ahmed Abdul-Kareem.

Some 300 vital military and industrial strategic targets in Saudi and UAE are all within the range of fire and sources in war-stricken Yemen have warned that they should expect more attacks on their oil infrastructure should the Saudi-led Coalition continue its aggression and siege on the Yemeni people.

A high-ranking Ansarallah defence official speaking on condition of anonymity has confirmed to MintPress that his forces successfully launched a major operation against a strategic economic target in Saudi Arabia. The operation, which saw seven unmanned drones carry out an attack on two oil pumping stations, came in retaliation for Saudi attacks on civilians as well as renewed Saudi-led Coalition attacks on Hodeida following a recent withdrawal, as per the UN mediated Stockholm accord.

This week at least 13 civilians, including women and children, were killed and more than 10 others sustained injuries after Saudi-led warplanes carried out airstrikes on a truck loaded with fruit in Sada`a and a separate spate of airstrikes hit heavily populated areas in Dhale.

The source said that Yemen’s Air Force carried out the operation on vital Saudi oil installations in the provinces of Dawadmi and Afif near the Saudi capital, Riyadh. The operation targeted the two pumping stations on Saudi Arabia’s main East-West pipeline that connects the Red Sea port city of Yanbu to the eastern oilfields. The 750-mile-long pipeline reportedly has a capacity of at least 5 million barrels per day.

The attack came after intelligence gathering operations and with cooperation from allied locals, according to the source, who said Ansarallah forces will be able to carry out larger operations in the heart of Saudi-led Coalition countries if escalating Saudi attacks on Yemen continue, and the Saudi-UAE aggressors refuse to implement the UN-brokered Stockholm agreement in Hodeida.

Saudi Arabia has confirmed the attacks, saying Riyadh has stopped pumping crude oil on a major pipeline across the country after retaliatory drone strikes carried out by Yemeni forces. Ansarallah’s spokesman, Mohammed Abdus-Salaam, said that the attacks were a response to the aggressors continuing to commit genocide against the Yemeni people.

The Saudi energy minister, Khalid A. al-Falih, said the Saudi state-owned petroleum and natural gas company, Saudi Aramco, halted oil pumping on the pipeline from the oil-rich Eastern Province to the Red Sea, while the damage was being evaluated and its two targeted pumping stations were being repaired.

Al-Falih said in a statement published by state news agency SPA: “Saudi Aramco took precautionary measures and temporarily stopped operation of the pipeline, as it is evaluating the situation and working on restoring the operations of the affected pump station and the pipeline.”

Brig. Gen. Yahya Sarie, the spokesman for the Ansarallah-allied Yemeni army, said that the operation was in response to “the continued aggression and blockade of our people, and we are prepared to carry out more unique and harsh strikes.”

It is worth noting that the defenders of Yemen led by the popular Ansarallah Movement, maintain deep-strike drone capacity.

In early January, the Saudi-led aggressors announced that they had effectively destroyed a major communications and control center used by Yemeni forces to direct drones attacks, but the latest attack on Saudi pipelines shows that the Saudi strikes did not undermine the Ansarallah Movement’s ability to strike deep inside of Saudi territory, a fact confirmed by a number of Yemeni officials to MintPress News.

Ansarallah forces have upgraded the precision of their armed drones considerably, allowing them to travel more than 900 miles at a speed of 150 mph, covering much of the Persian Gulf, including the Saudi and Emirati capitals.

High-ranking sources in Yemen’s Ansarallah-allied navy and Yemen’s air force, speaking on condition of anonymity, told MintPress that Saudi Arabia and the UAE’s vital strategic targets are all within the range of fire and that they should expect more attacks on their oil infrastructure should the Saudi-led Coalition continue its aggression and siege on the Yemeni people.

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