Amid more reports of violence in Hamdan, where the Houthis have been embroiled in a bitter battle for territorial control against tribesmen loyal to al-Islah (Yemen most prominent Sunni radical faction and umbrella for the Muslim Brotherhood), analysts have predicted that Yemen Brotherhood will face much difficulty now that Saudi Arabia has labelled the organization a terror group.
According to several sources close to the matter Saudi Arabia and the GCC are poised to exert pressure onto Sana’a as to outlaw Yemen Brotherhood and lay waste its last bastion in the Arabian Peninsula.
With Riyadh already threatening to cut Qatar off from the rest of the region, geographically, politically and economically, over its backing of the organization, it is not too difficult to imagine that Yemen could be put under similar pressure to satisfy its powerful neighbours and financial patrons.
With Yemen hanging but by a thread, President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi will be keen to promote harmony and cooperation over political regional dissidence.
In a recent interview, Dr. Abdul Hamid Shukri, The Secretary General of the Supreme National Council for the Liberation and Independence of the south warned that because use the Brotherhood as a pan-Arab found itself cornered in Yemen, where it has most power, its leadership might attempt to violence as a mean to assert its position and thus prevent its political dissolution.
The doctor further warned that the Brotherhood could seek to use Bab al Mandeb as a pressure point by seizing control over Aden and Taiz.