The Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist, Tawakkol Karman, said that Yemen is facing a multi-headed war run by Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE that seek to divide it for geopolitical purposes.

In a speech during the "non-violence as a means of conflict resolution" event at the Trento International Festival in Italy, Mrs. Karman explained that this war is aimed to liquidate the Yemeni state and impede all chances of its return.

She emphasized that Yemen is the graveyard of invaders and that all the goals of the conspirators will sink into its sands, noting that the Houthi sectarian militia has provided the Yemeni people with nothing but death and destruction.

The Yemeni people, she continued, has the ability to withstand and will not succumb to any external occupation or its affiliated tools like the Houthi militia in Sanaa and the separatist transitional militias in Aden.

The struggle for a secure homeland governed by law, citizenship and democracy will remain the overarching goal, Karman stressed, pointing out that the Iranian-backed Houthi militia is the biggest barrier to peace, exactly like the Taliban movement.

As she indicated, violence and wars are part of this militia’s warfare doctrine, and not a mere temporary situation whose conditions and factors are specific and can be negotiated.

In addition, Karman pointed out that peace means the Yemeni state to be restored, an end to the Houthi militia in Sanaa and the STC militias in Aden to be put and the Saudi-Emirati guardianship over the Yemeni decision to be lifted.

She also made it clear that any settlements that legitimize the militia control and turn Yemen into areas of influence for Iran and the Saudi-Emirati coalition will be another door to sustainable wars, and not to peace and stability.