After the Targeting of the Financial Center in Riyadh… How Does Sana’a Put the Saudi Investment Environment Under Fire?

The scenes that showed part of the severe damage inflicted on the tower of the Financial Center of the “Aramco” company in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, following its direct targeting by the Yemeni Armed Forces, raised wide interest and matching readings in the international political, economic, and military circles, as a strike with pivotal strategic dimensions and implications, which transcended the field tactic to score a hit in the heart of the economic nerve of the Saudi regime.

Follow-ups — Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:

This field shift came following the announcement by the Armed Forces of carrying out six qualitative military operations in response to the crimes and brutal massacres against civilians and residential objects, foremost among them the two massacres of the Souq Al-Hadarah in Al-Wazi’iyah District and Al-Shuriyah village in Bani Hushaysh District, which resulted in the fall of more than one hundred and twenty martyrs and wounded, most of them women and children, where the strikes included targeting King Khalid International Airport, the Aramco tanks, and the financial center in Riyadh, along with targeting the Aramco facilities in Abqaiq, the pumping station in Al-Dawadmi, and the enemy’s mobilizations in Najran, Al-Jawf, and Marib.

The danger of targeting the financial center in Riyadh lies in its location and its direct investment messages, as it includes the main headquarters of the financial institutions and major companies, and forms the facade on which Riyadh relies to present itself as a regional and international financial and investment center, where the official spokesman for the Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, affirmed that the strikes achieved precise and direct hits and inflicted major damage on the targeted facilities and the outbreak of wide fires in Abqaiq.

Accordingly, the arrival of the Yemeni missiles and drones to the heart of the capital, Riyadh, and their penetration of the enemy’s defense systems places the Saudi economic and oil interests within the range of the direct repercussions of any escalation, transforming the response equation into a comprehensive track that is not limited to military sites, but hits the vital objects on which the Saudi economic project is based.

Economic estimates affirm that the latest targeting places the investment environment in the Kingdom before a state of frightening high uncertainty for the global markets, especially with what the economic platforms circulated about the Saudi Stock Exchange losing about twenty billion dollars of its market value during hours of the execution of the strike, which sends a clear warning to Riyadh that the continuation of shedding the blood of civilians and besieging the Yemeni people will be followed by a continuous expansion of the target bank and the imposition of the equation of “escalation for escalation and siege for siege” in the depth of its territory.