September 26th memory is more glowing

The Yemeni people's celebrations of the glorious September 26 Revolution began early this year, compared to previous years. Since the first hours of the glorious month of September yesterday, Sunday, the content of social media in Yemen has become talk of September, in spite of the Houthi imamate and in rejection of the Iranian occupation.

While the Imamate has been mobilizing forcefully for weeks to organize its central event, the Prophet’s birthday, which it sees as the founding day of the hateful Imamate, and forcing residents, merchants, public and private institutions, and mosques to be tarred in green, the content of the Yemeni media on social media, with September songs, the national flag, and the republican bird, has swept all pages and websites, and the Houthi tarred with its green banners has become isolated and ostracized.

This year’s early celebration of the revolution anniversary was not a coincidence, but rather has local roots. This year witnessed a series of peaceful protests, the largest in comparison to previous years, including government employees such as the Teachers’ Club, which is organizing a strike for the second year in a row, several strikes by private unions such as the Mineral Water and Commercial Electricity, demonstrations by the private sector, tribes, and even pomegranate farmers in Saada, who unexpectedly rose up against Houthi bullying, to the point of chanting “Leave, Mutawakkil.”

Early celebrations this year, which included raising national flags on the roofs of houses, chanting national songs in cars, halls and celebrations, and public calls for young people, as in Ibb Governorate, to seize the anniversary of the revolution and turn it into a popular revolution that sweeps away the Houthis and shakes their foundations, and is expected to witness huge demonstrations in Sana’a, Ibb, Dhamar, Hodeidah and other governorates, were afflicted by the Houthis and the disaster of rains and floods increased their misery.

The Iranian provocation of sending its High Representative to Sana’a in early September is a clear message from the Iranian occupation and a provocation that no one with a position and dignity can miss. It likely contributed to the immediate popular response to it, as the Houthis’ red carpet reception of the Iranian High Representative Ali Rezaei or Ramdani coincided with the first of September. The Yemenis responded directly with a popular celebration of the Imamate, which opposes Iran and its Houthi sin of explicit hostility, and pledges to resist it until Yemen is liberated from its tyranny.

According to people in Sana'a, loudspeakers are blaring songs in response to every Houthi noise and their disgusting howling. The matter has developed to the point that the owner of every house and the head of every family, every young man, child and woman are preparing to confront their Houthi opponents and enemies in an unprecedented manner, inspired by the Palestinian experience in resisting the Zionist occupation, in both Gaza and the West Bank, and in their belief that resistance against the Houthis is the only way to salvation and freedom from the Iranian occupation, according to the available capabilities.

The widespread celebration of the September anniversary is a popular response to all the Houthi outbidding locally, and a clear and explicit response to his claims that he is popular as a result of the naval attacks, which have become blatantly cinematic as we have witnessed in recent days. It is also a very strong rejection by the people of the Houthi decisions that destroy state institutions and shatter the pillars of the republic, in the name of radical change, which is nothing but a copy of the Iranian experiment to redesign state institutions in various forms to ensure Houthi control over the reins of power in Yemen, and to extend the period of Iranian colonialism.