TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Beyond the murderous campaign against Yemen's children, beyond the systematic destruction of a people's history and religious heritage, lies still an offense which has borne heavy on Yemen's heart: the negation of its Resistance movement's legitimacy.

History it needs to be said has seen its pages filled with such tales of deceit, misappropriation, vengeful negation and betrayal. One recalls how back in 1962, when Yemen reinvented itself a republic, Saudi Arabia sought too to prevent this one nation of Southern Arabia to achieve its political ambitions. Yemen's independence was nevertheless won hellip;

Today it is to resist the same foe: imperialism that Yemen has risen once more its banner and called on its sons and daughters to weather the onslaught. Yemen it needs to be said is entitled to its Resistance. In fact, one may argue that resistance has become an existential necessity when faced with the sheer abomination Saudi Arabia ambitions to rise over the region: Wahhabism.

Negation among all other negations, Wahhabism hails not of Islam. It sits an exclusion onto itself, a grand devolution which clergy has claimed itself holy over Islam when in fact it has denied its tenets. How much of Yemen's blood will flow for the world to recognise the injustice which is Saudi Arabia?

For decades now Yemen has stood in defiance of Wahhabism, anchored in its traditions, rooted in its history and nationalism. Today Riyadh would like to disappear Yemen in a torrent of senseless violence, so that Resistance would no longer have a banner to rise south of its borders. But Yemen is a stubborn and resolute people. Yemen is an old people whose land has yet to be conquered.

It is not political restoration the Wahhabi Kingdom of Saudi Arabia pursues in Yemen. It is not democracy Riyadh wants to promote! How can we even entertain the possibility that such an aggression on Yemen could ever be justified when millions stand in famine and in fire? How can we fathom that the most brutal of all regimes, a regime which has victimized its own nationals in the name of religious absolutism, could ever think outside the tyranny of its greed, and abomination of its ideology: Wahhabism?

Resistance has risen in Yemen in reaction to injustice and opposition to tyranny. Why is it that western nations continue to deny that they have claimed for themselves: the right to political determination, and territorial sovereignty?

The Houthis of Yemen did not engineer a rebellion, they spoke liberation to the people and the people came. A nation which stood disunited in its tribal and political makeup found common ground in its desire to breathe free from the suffocation of al-Saud.

The Houthis were only ever the spark to Yemen's Resistance Movement hellip; Still few in the media dare admit that Yemen's war is one of resistance against the oppression of a foreign invader.

Too few have also admitted that Yemen's fight sits far beyond sovereignty, geopolitics and natural resources. Yemen's war is a war for History, a war of obliteration hellip;

There have been many tyrants before al-Saud who imagined they could achieve such feat. How many fires have we had to put out, how many doors have we already seen broken down, and hands risen in injustice and treachery?

Yemen was set fire to for Yemen refused to take a knee to Riyadh and abide by Wahhabsim dogma. Yemen was sold out by western powers for the promise of lucrative contracts hellip; and on they went to churn propaganda's wheel to rationalize their own ignominy.

Numbers today can no longer convey the horrors Yemen was made to endure: according to the Shafaqna Institute for Middle Eastern Studies' research over 15 000 civilians have perished, over 3 million have been displaced and 20 million are food insecure. When we speak of food insecurity we are really talking about famine hellip; absolute and bleak.

Put it simply Yemen is being disappeared under the watchful eye of the international community, held prisoner under an inhumane humanitarian blockade, and still many world powers insist it is the Resistance which ought to abandon its ambitions.

If ambitioning freedom within the limit of your own borders is today an illegitimate claim, then indeed Democracy has fallen. If fighting religious oppression today is a crime, then what should we call those who seek to enslave? Should we call Daesh the liberators of nations? Should we bow and offer allegiance to those who desecrate holy grounds and reject the pluralism Islam asserted?

Throughout its history, Yemen could never be conquered hellip; many tried, all failed. There was only ever one man Yemen bow to for it saw guidance in his words: Imam Ali.

By Catherine Shakdam for Tasnim News Agency

Shakdam is an expert commentator, political consultant, and the director of Shafaqna Institute for Middle Eastern studies in London. A regular pundit on news networks, Shakdam's writings have appeared in major publications across the world, like Foreign Policy Association, MintPress News and the Guardian.