The former head of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service Turki Al-Faisal has acknowledged that the Saudis feel that the United States has left them alone.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency International Group, Saudi Prince and former head of the intelligence service Turki al-Faisal said the Saudis were deeply disappointed with the US behavior.
Al-Faisal said in an interview with Arab News that the Saudis feel that the United States has left them alone and that Washington should work with Saudi Arabia to confront what it calls the threats in the Persian Gulf region.
Claiming that the threat was “Iranian influence in the region,” he claimed, Iran not only uses the Houthis (Ansarullah) as a tool “to disrupt the stability of Saudi Arabia, but also to influence the security and stability of international sea crossings along the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.”
 Contrary to this claim, experts emphasize that the Americans, with the help of the Saudis, have increased their presence in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait under the pretext of combating piracy and arms smuggling; this is how the United States seeks to defeat the ceasefire in Yemen
The Saudi prince also claimed that the removal of Ansarullah from the list of so-called terrorist groups has increased the movement’s attacks on Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Yemeni officials have repeatedly stressed that the attacks are a response to eight years of Saudi coalition atrocities in the country.
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Al-Faisal continued: “[US President Joe Biden] said in his election campaign that he would leave Saudi Arabia and, naturally, he kept his promise by stopping the joint US-Saudi operation against the Houthis in Yemen.”
He said Biden had also said he would not meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, adding that Saudi Arabia had long called for a peaceful solution to the Yemeni war, but that Ansarullah did not agree.
The claim comes as the Saudi coalition does not allow ships carrying fuel to enter Yemen and blocks flights to Sanaa airport, despite several days of firefighting.
In this regard, the Yemeni Ansarullah movement criticized the escalation of tensions in the Red Sea by the United States on April 16, at the same time as the implementation of the UN ceasefire in the country.
“Mohammad Abdul Salam,” the official spokesman of the movement, emphasized: “US movements in the Red Sea in the shadow of humanitarian and military firefighting in Yemen contradict Washington’s claims of support for firefighting; “Because these movements seek to strengthen the state of war and siege against Yemen.”
In early April, UN special envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg announced a ceasefire and a cessation of hostilities in the country; a ceasefire that includes all air, land and sea operations [both inside Yemen and on its external borders].