{"id":12296,"date":"2017-12-03T14:52:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T14:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=12296"},"modified":"2017-12-03T14:52:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T14:52:40","slug":"yemens-houthi-fighters-say-missile-attack-launched-at-abu-dhabi-nuclear-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/yemens-houthi-fighters-say-missile-attack-launched-at-abu-dhabi-nuclear-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen’s Houthi fighters say missile attack launched at Abu Dhabi nuclear plant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement\u00a0says it has fired a cruise missile at a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates\u00a0capital,\u00a0Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

“The missile force announces the launching of a winged cruise missile … towards the al-Barakah nuclear reactor in Abu Dhabi,” the Houthis’\u00a0al-Masirah\u00a0news\u00a0website\u00a0reported on Sunday, without providing further details.<\/p>\n

Yemeni media reported that the cruise missile had successfully hit the Barakah nuclear reactor in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

Colonel Aziz Rashid, a spokesman for the Yemeni army, has told Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen TV channel that the missile attack was a political and military response to the UAE’s role in the destruction of Yemen. He insisted that the missile had hit the intended target.<\/p>\n

The United Arab Emirates’ state-run news agency has, however, denied reports of a Yemeni missile striking the under-construction nuclear plant. WAM said the UAE has air-defense systems that can protect it against such threats.<\/p>\n

Yemeni forces regularly fire ballistic missiles at positions inside Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the Saudi-led war on Yemen.<\/p>\n

Back in September, Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi warned that the UAE is no longer a safe country as missiles manufactured by the Yemeni group can now hit anywhere in the Arab country.<\/p>\n

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PressTV-\u2018UAE not safe from Yemen\u2019s Ansarullah missiles\u2019<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The leader of the Ansarullah movement says missiles produced and possessed by the group can now hit anywhere in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p><\/div>\n

The UAE has been a key ally of Saudi Arabia in its military campaign against Yemen, which has killed over 12,000 people since March 2015.<\/p>\n

The Emirati air force has played a significant part in the aerial assaults against Yemen. In addition to deploying its own troops on Yemeni soil, Abu Dhabi has been training pro-Saudi militants fighting on the ground against the Yemeni army and its allied forces.<\/p>\n

The country has also come under scrutiny for running secret prisons in Yemen, where hundreds of inmates suffer mistreatment and torture.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia and its allies launched the war\u00a0in a bid to crush the Houthis and reinstate the former Riyadh-friendly regime, but the kingdom has achieved neither of its goals.<\/p>\n

The protracted Saudi war, which has been accompanied by a land, naval, and aerial blockade, has left over 17 million Yemenis in need of food and caused a cholera epidemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement\u00a0says it has fired a cruise missile at a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates\u00a0capital,\u00a0Abu Dhabi. “The missile force announces the launching of a winged cruise missile … towards the al-Barakah nuclear reactor in Abu Dhabi,” the Houthis’\u00a0al-Masirah\u00a0news\u00a0website\u00a0reported on Sunday, without providing further details. Yemeni media reported that the cruise …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12299,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12296\/revisions\/12299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}