{"id":675903,"date":"2026-09-26T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=675903"},"modified":"2026-09-26T01:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:20:00","slug":"yemens-saudi-backed-president-calls-on-citizens-to-mobilize-in-sign-of-desperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=675903","title":{"rendered":"Yemen&#8217;s Saudi-Backed President Calls On Citizens To Mobilize, In Sign Of Desperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Yemen&#8217;s Saudi-Backed President Calls On Citizens To Mobilize, In Sign Of Desperation<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The Ansar Allah movement, commonly called the Houthis, have remained the most recognizable name and force in Yemen of late, but lesser known among many headline consumers is the country&#8217;s internationally recognized government, which is directly backed by the Saudis and recognized by the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Rashid Al-Alimi, \u200bpresident of the &#8216;legitimate&#8217; government based out of Sanaa, \u200con Friday <strong>called \u200bon \u200call Yemenis to \u2060mobilize and join the armed \u2060forces against the Houthi rebels&#8217; onslaught<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure role=\"group\" class=\"caption caption-img\"><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/yemenprez.jpg\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/yemenprez.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"589b817d-d6ef-439f-bb99-7ce7281de40f\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/yemenprez.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Source: Iranian presidency&#8217;s office<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The general call to arms, coupled with a declaration of\u00a0\u200bfuture \u200cgeneral \u200camnesty to any Houthi fighters who decide to lay down their weapons and defect &#8211; suggests that the Saudi-backed coalition seeks desperate measures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I call upon the sons of our great people to engage in general mobilization and national mobilization, to rally around their armed and security forces,&#8221; Al-Alimi, who is also Supreme Commander of the Yemeni Armed Forces, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/middle-east\/yemens-president-calls-on-yemenis-to-mobilize-3003156\">said<\/a> in a speech.<\/p>\n<p>Things quickly went <strong>from bad to worse for Riyadh on the Yemen front<\/strong> this month, especially after Houthi rapid gains along the Red Sea coast.<\/p>\n<p>After some direct drone or missile hits on the East-West pipeline earlier in September (which may have been Iraqi Shia militias, per US officials), Saudi Aramco told European refineries that it would cancel crude shipments in October. But Reuters has since r<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/saudi-arabia-restarts-east-west-oil-pipeline-resume-exports-yanbu-sources-say-2026-09-22\/\" target=\"_blank\">eported<\/a>\u00a0that the pipeline has restarted.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudis are currently trying to rally support from Mecca Defense Pact allies Pakistan and Turkey, though its anything but clear how much support these will actually commit.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of all this, somewhat unexpectedly, French President Emmanuel Macron declared he would send &#8220;military means&#8221; to help shield the vital Yanbu oil terminal from Houthi attacks &#8211; though it&#8217;s unclear what precise difference a handful of ground units might make.<\/p>\n<p><em>More Houthi ballistic missiles were launched on Saudi Arabia this week:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\" xml:lang=\"fr\">\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfe\ud83c\uddea L&#8217;Arabie saoudite a dit avoir intercept\u00e9 une attaque de missiles tir\u00e9s du <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Y%C3%A9men?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Y\u00e9men<\/a> voisin par les Houthis pro-iraniens. Les d\u00e9fenses a\u00e9riennes ont abattu six missiles visant les r\u00e9gions de Ta\u00eff et de Yanbu.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 Emmanuel <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Macron?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Macron<\/a> a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 y envoyer des &#8220;moyens militaires&#8221;\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P76NzF7RIy\">pic.twitter.com\/P76NzF7RIy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FRANCE 24 Fran\u00e7ais (@France24_fr) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/France24_fr\/status\/2103530543191109910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>&#8220;We are going to send military resources, that is to say, soldiers, radar systems and defense systems, to protect this site,<\/strong>&#8221; but <strong>&#8220;not to get us involved in any conflicts,&#8221;<\/strong> Macron informed French media.<\/p>\n<p>But instead they could just find themselves in the direct line of fire for Houthi projectiles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Fri, 09\/25\/2026 &#8211; 21:20<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/yemenprez.jpg\" title=\"Yemen&apos;s Saudi-Backed President Calls On Citizens To Mobilize, In Sign Of Desperation\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen&#8217;s Saudi-Backed President Calls On Citizens To Mobilize, In Sign Of Desperation The Ansar Allah movement, commonly called the Houthis, have remained the most recognizable name and force in Yemen of late, but lesser known among many headline consumers is the country&#8217;s internationally recognized government, which is directly backed by the Saudis and recognized by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=675903\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yemen&#8217;s Saudi-Backed President Calls On Citizens To Mobilize, In Sign Of Desperation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}