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Yemeni political observers say that the U.S. decision on designating Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a "foreign terrorist organization" will have limited impact on the ongoing conflict in Yemen.
The resigned regime of former Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi lauded the U.S. decision, considering it an important step in the right direction.
It stressed the importance of the U.S. decision in "pushing the regime in Iran to change its behavior and stop its practices in destabilizing the region's security and stability interference in the internal affairs of Arab countries."
However, local Yemeni analysts and political observers interviewed by Xinhua said that the U.S. decision will have limited impact on the ongoing conflict in the war-torn Arab country.
Mohsen Naji, a strategic military expert based in Aden province, said that blacklisting Iran's IRGC will not largely affect the ongoing fighting in Yemen, but may lead to serious impacts in the turbulent Middle Eastern region.
He said that "the strategic relations between the Houthis and Iran won't be largely harmed by U.S. decision… . Iran will not leave its proxies in the region including Houthis despite all the recent U.S. sanctions."
The Yemeni military expert expected that the internal conflict taking place in the country will see no end in the near future.
"Blacklisting Iran's IRGC won't have an impact on Yemen's internal conflict that will continue in further escalation," said Naji.
He concluded by saying that "the U.S. decision mainly aims at mounting the pressures on the Iranians just to change their expanding political role in region. Even Iran itself will not be affected by this decision but regional conflicts will be triggered as a consequence of the decision."
Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries intervened militarily and began pounding the capital Sanaa in March 2015 in response to an official public request from Hadi.
The conflict has recently entered its fifth year, aggravating the suffering of Yemenis and deepening the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
It has killed tens of thousands of people mostly civilians, displaced three million and pushed over 20 million on the brink of famine.
Source: Xinhua, Edited by Website Team
