On January 18, Ibrahim al-Amin wrote the following report in the Al-Akhbar daily newspaper: "There are no longer any exceptional secrets in the Yemeni war. Several months ago, the Emiratis turned to Iran to sign some side-understandings pertaining to a number of files including Yemen. The Abu Dhabi leaders state that their relationship with Mohammad Bin Salman doesn’t allow for a direct confrontation with the man. Their honesty makes them speak about the US demands in Yemen and other places. However, they are also good at speaking about the side-understandings that aim at shielding them from paying high prices for their mistakes here or there.

"They did the same with Lebanon more than a year ago. They sent someone to request at least a media truce with Hezbollah. They said they don’t want the direct campaign against them to persist in the discourse of the Party's Secretary-General, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah. They also offered some services to Lebanon but they were told that the most important file for Iran and for the Party in Lebanon is the Yemeni file. On this matter, the Emirati leaders don’t need anyone to explain to them that the war in Yemen has failed and that the central objective of toppling Ansarullah and installing a rule à la House of Saud is impossible and will lead to destroying all the region's countries.

"The Emiratis were the first to realize that the Iran-led Resistance Axis is openly supportive of Yemen and that the axis is ready to offer all forms of support to Ansarullah… In the context of the understandings, the UAE leaders were complaining against the Saudi management of the battle in Yemen. The complaints started from the military management of the alliance all the way to the mode of operations of the "army of Abd Rabbuh Mansour." As for the solution according to Abu Dhabi, it consisted of constructing a Yemeni power capable of occupying an important position in the South or even reaching the north without a direct military implication…

"The new development consisted of a major modification in the American-British decisions represented by a strategic decision to prevent the fall of Ma'rib. The Americans thus directly intervened in the battle. Anyone who looks back at the details of the latest battles will realize that it is deeper and more dangerous in terms of the Israeli fingerprints. The assaulting forces divided the areas in Ma'rib just like Israel divided its latest battle against Gaza. The weapons in Ma'rib were distributed in a way that is very much unlike the Saudi mind. The nature of the intelligence work doesn’t resemble at all the work of the assaulting forces in the past years… In the present war situation, the battle needs men on the ground, hence the American decision to force the UAE to reconsider its war "exit strategy" and to push it for more implication.

"At this point, any side-mediations become meaningless. When the Emiratis tell Iran or Hezbollah in Lebanon or Ansarullah in Yemen that they are subjected to major pressures on the part of the Americans, this doesn’t work in amending the new tendency of the Ansarullah leaders in dealing with the UAE from now on. All the mediations won't change the decision of the Ansarullah leadership and the personal decision of Sayed Abdul Malik al-Houthi to deal "disciplinary strikes" to the UAE in light of its actions in Yemen for at least three months now..."