American Herald Tribune | Saurav Dutt: Despite humanitarian disaster and ongoing warfare resulting in escalating casualties in Yemen, one of the major tributaries of warfare in the region is the utter denial of Saudia Arabia in its full involvement. So much is clear anytime somebody linked to the Saudi regime opens their mouth to comment on the matter.

Such was evident when Saudi Arabia's chief humanitarian director claimed his country's military campaign in Yemen was not an aggression. Speaking in an interview with RT (Russia Today), Dr Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabiah, who is the Supervisor General of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief (KSRELIEF) said Riyadh"did not actually attack" the country. He noted that the air campaign which has contributed to the deepening chaos in Yemen according to various rights groups, has in fact been provoked by the failed political process in the war-torn state.

The reality is far grimmer. The Saudi war on Yemen isn't really motivated by the failed political process or the Shia-Sunni divide in the first order. The Saudis attacked to either annex Yemen in its entirety or at least a passage to the ports in the south of Yemen. What Saudi Arabia wants is a direct way to the Arabian sea that prevents the dependence on the strait between Yemen and Djibouti to facilitate its oil exports. The agreement with Iran came into that and so did the war in Syria. The latter turns around a pipeline from Qatar to Turkey for market share in Europe by ousting the Islamic pipeline from Iran to Syria agreed upon by Assad and Iran. Religion is not involved in this. The Sunni-Shia divide is used by the US to justify the destabilization and fragmentation of Syria by causing a civil war - along the same lines as the civil war in Iraq and Libya: to oust the presidents of these countries in punishment for not submitting to US dictate.

What the august speaker on RT ignores is just how vital the Saudi Arabian campaign against Yemen is to them. Any ignorance of the matter on his (and the Saudi) part solely resting upon the issue of sectarianism ignores something else rather significant, that Saudi Arabia is oil dependent and is pumping at unprecedented levels in bid to maximize own market share against rivals and to punish Russian resource sectors in conjunction with US foreign policy objectives. Now Saudi reserves are well known to be overestimated and they have no new fields to exploit, whereas their neighbour Yemen has large areas of underdeveloped fields sitting right there to be plucked at will.

Many companies like British Gas and even the United States Geological Survey�(USGS) have been fully aware of the vast oil and gas deposits of Yemen for some time, especially offshore. This war has other objectives beyond Sunni/ Shia sectarianism. It is also about future control of a vast store of underutilized resources that Saudi's are itching to access.
�The interviewer on RT misses the point entirely as for the Saudi's this intervention in Yemen is archetypal of their raison d'�tre in the region at large. This regime wants to create chaos, because it survives on chaos both internally in Saudi Arabia as well as externally in Iraq, in Syria and Yemen. Peace is the last thing on their mind, they care about remaining in power and they care about the Wahhabi agenda, which is entirely typical of their foreign policy outlook.