The US military’s use of stealth bombers to carry out strikes in Yemen indicates that it is actually a message to Tehran, according to the Swiss newspaper Le Tan.
Lotan pointed out that such bombers have not been used on a mission for 7 years, and the last person to resort to them was the former American president. Barack Obama -At the end of his term – against a “jihadist base” in Libya in 2017.
With the exception of tests and some shows of force in Northern Europe, against Russia,… B-2 stealth bombers“, or “flying wings”, which are the most expensive in the history of American aviation, remained in their hangars in the state of Missouri, according to newspaper writer Luis Lima.
However, these bombers were used the day before yesterday, Wednesday, in Yemen, bombing facilities and weapons depots controlled by it The Houthis.
The US military leadership presented this operation as aiming to “weaken the Houthis’ capabilities” regarding their attacks on ships in the Red Sea and the threats they pose to the United States’ “regional partners.”
The Houthis are lined up behind Iran within the “Axis of Resistance” that was formed against Israel, and their attacks caused… Red Sea In the decrease in the number of carriers in Bab al-Mandab Strait By half this year compared to the previous year, according to figures from the US Energy Information Administration.
However, the newspaper pointed out that, far from returning to calm in global maritime traffic, it seems that the launch of stealth bombers in the skies of Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, and the city of Saada, the Houthi stronghold, has another meaning.
A message to Iran
Here, the newspaper reported what the US Secretary of Defense said Lloyd Austin When he bragged that these raids were “unique evidence” of Washington’s ability to target facilities that “our adversaries seek” to keep out of reach, no matter how deeply they were buried under them and no matter how fortified they were, adding that the United States’ use of long-range stealth bombers shows how long Her hand and that she can intervene “at any time and in any place.”
The newspaper saw this as a clear message to Iran, in the context of a possible new attack by Israel on Iran after Iranian missiles fell on it on October 1.
In this regard, she noted that US President Joe Biden caused a sensation by admitting that he “discussed” (to express his opposition) the possibility of bombing Iranian nuclear facilities.
However, Lotan says that experts indicate that the B-2 stealth bombers are the only ones capable of carrying the massive 13,600-kg GBU-57 bomb, of the bunker-proof type, capable of To destroy some very deeply buried structures.
The newspaper revealed that the United States has only about 15 bombs of this type, and their manufacture was linked, from the beginning, to the threats posed by the nuclear facilities of North Korea and Iran, including Natanz website The famous one, south of Tehran, partly excavated under the mountain.
She stated that Israel cannot strike Iranian facilities buried underground except with active cooperation with American forces.
But the newspaper warned that targeting Yemen exacerbates the humanitarian catastrophe it is experiencing after it has become one of the most isolated countries on the planet, with about 18 million Yemenis relying exclusively on humanitarian aid, and now it is turning into a “laboratory” to highlight the threats directed at Iran as it prepares. More with the escalation with Israel.
In this context, Joyce Msuya, a United Nations official, said: “We are deeply concerned about these attacks, which affect the ability to help the population.”