Saudis, West can’t replace Saleh

Abdel Basset Hubaishi, a coordinator of the Khallas Movement, said that ever since the revolution started in Yemen earlier this year, Saudi Arabia, some other Persian Gulf states, and their European allies realized that Saleh’s time was over and he would have to leave Yemen.

”They approved that he should leave the country so that they [could] replace him with someone else,”‌ he added.

”They had some other people that they wanted to replace him with, but they did not come to an agreement, therefore he had to return,”‌ Hubaishi stated.

Saleh returned to Yemen on Friday after spending more than three months in Saudi Arabia for medical treatment for the injuries he received in a rocket attack on the presidential palace on June 3.

Yemeni security forces killed at least 70 anti-regime protesters and injured more than 100 others one day after Ali Abdullah Saleh returned from Saudi Arabia.

Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have held regular anti-regime demonstrations in major cities across the country since January, demanding that Saleh step down after over three decades in power.

The demonstrators have also been protesting against poverty and widespread corruption as well as the Saudi and US meddling in the country’s affairs.

However, Saleh has consistently defied the calls for his resignation.

Hundreds of anti-regime protesters have been killed and many more injured by riot police and Saleh’s supporters since January.

Source: presstv.ir