The Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Muammar Al-Eryani, held the terrorist Houthi militia affiliated with Iran, fully responsible for the catastrophic environmental, economic and humanitarian impacts resulting from the sinking of the ship M/V Rubymar, flying the Belize flag, after it was targeted on November 18 by two “Iranian-made” guided missiles. While it was transiting 25 nautical miles from the port of Mokha in the Red Sea, carrying more than 41,000 tons of IMDG 5.1 fertilizers, and quantities of oils and fuel.

Al-Eryani renewed his call on all countries, organizations and bodies concerned with preserving the marine environment, to quickly deal with the catastrophic repercussions of the sinking of the ship about 11 miles from the nearest point of land in Yemen, and to address the environmental disaster resulting from the sinking of fertilizers that contain phosphate and chemicals. Others are extremely dangerous in Yemeni marine waters, as they will lead to algae blooming, forming a cover over the surface of the water and blocking light from it, the death of coral reefs and marine animals, impacting the food web for marine plants and fish resources, and causing damage to hundreds of thousands of fishermen and desalination plants.< /p>

Al-Eryani stressed that the Houthi militia’s repeated targeting of tankers of chemical and petroleum products in the Red Sea, the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden reflects the extent of its recklessness and indifference to the disastrous repercussions of the oil spill in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, on the economic, agricultural, and fisheries sector in our country, and the coastal strip of Yemen and the countries. The riparian, marine environment and biodiversity of the islands located in the region.

Al-Eryani stressed that the incident confirms the Houthi militia’s manipulation of the international community over the issue of the Safer floating oil tank for eight years, and used it as a time bomb to blackmail and threaten the world, ignoring warnings of the dangers of an imminent spill of more than a million barrels of oil, and today it is launching its attacks. Direct terrorist attacks on chemical and oil tankers in international shipping lines.

Al-Eryani called on the international community to work on a coordinated response to confront the activities of the Houthi militia, and avoid the catastrophic risks looming as a result of its terrorist attacks on oil tankers in international shipping lines, by immediately beginning to classify it as a “terrorist organization,” drying up its financial, political, and media sources, and moving on a path Parallel to providing real support to the Presidential Command Council and the government in the aspects (political, economic, military) to restore the state and impose its control over the entire Yemeni territory.