Brotherhood leaders: Iran's expansionist policy is rejected, and time for Saudi Arabia to support the choices of all peoples

Leaders within the Muslim Brotherhood group have confirmed their support for legitimacy in Yemen and their rejection of the Iranian expansionist project in the region. They expressed hope that the military operation will be the beginning of a change in the Saudi position “in support of legitimacy and in support of the choices of all peoples”.

Yahya Hamid, the Egyptian minister of investment in the government of Hisham Qandil, said in tweets published on his personal twitter page: “The assault on legitimacy and on the popular will facilitates penetration into the region and undermining its national security.”

He declared his support for the operation “Storm of Decisiveness” and said: “We understand and support the Saudi operations in confrontation of the Iranian intervention and the Houthi threats to the unity of Yemen and the security of the Gulf.” He hoped at the same time that “the on-going operations will mark a new beginning by the new Saudi Administration in support of legitimacy and the choices of the Arab peoples everywhere.”

Hamid wondered how a transgressor against legitimacy like Sisi is allowed to take part in the battle for regaining the usurped legitimacy in Yemen and said: “the Sisi regime ascended to power by means of a bloody coup just like that of the Houthis and should not be allowed to take part in the battle for restoring legitimacy.”

Dr. Amr Darraj, a former minister and the official in charge of foreign relations within the Muslim Brotherhood, said in a tweet: “I hope that the campaign will reflect a new successful general inclination by the new Saudi leadership in favour of standing by the choices of the people.”

The Muslim Brotherhood issued a statement in which it condemned the meeting of Kings and Presidents in Egypt to discuss how to restore the legitimacy that was usurped by the Houthis in Yemen around a table chaired by the leader of the coup, Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi, who killed people unsupportive of his regime and burgled their legitimacy, describing the matter as “double standards”.

The text of the statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood

‘A communique from the Muslim Brotherhood to the Kings and Rulers of the Arabs

To the Kings and Presidents that are meeting in hijacked Egypt today in the presence of a coup perpetrator, a traitor and a killer of the people of Egypt. We address you with a message written by the Egyptian people with the blood of their martyrs accompanied by the cries of those who were shot with the treacherous bullets of the coup and by the steadfastness of the freedom-seeking men and women behind the bars of this butcher who is holding this big Egyptian homeland in prison.

You are meeting today to discuss your measures in the face of the Houthi coup in Yemen against the legitimate president there. But you are, regrettably, meeting as guests of another coup perpetrator and traitor, who betrayed the Ummah, broke his oath, killed the people and seized power with the force of the tank. The Egyptian people see a double standard in this.

Let it be known to the Arab rulers and the world at large that the Egyptian people will impose their will, break the military coup, regain their legitimacy and accomplish the objectives of the glorious 25 January revolution in living, freedom, human dignity and social justice.’