President of Yemen Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who left the country six months ago and stayed in Saudi Arabia due to the wide-scale conflict, has returned to Yemen together with several ministers in a plane of the Saudi Air Forces. The coalition of the Arab countries headed by Saudi Arabia (UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, and Sudan) started bombings of Yemen in March, when Houthi militants occupied the capital of the country Sa'ana. As a result of the coalition’s bombings, 6000 people died in Yemen in 6 months. President Hadi left for Riyadh, when Shiite militants and Houthis occupied Sa'ana. Now Hadi is going to mark Eid al-Adha in Yemen and then arrive in New York to participate in the 70th session of the UN General Assembly.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has recently held consultations in the Russian Foreign Ministry on the situation in Yemen. He thinks that “Saudi Arabia’s aggression in Yemen was a strategic mistake. This wrong action, of course, will have negative consequences for regional security and for the security of Yemen and Saudi Arabia as well. Continuation of the policy of using force will not lead to a resolution of the Yemeni issue. We believe that it is necessary to break this humanitarian blockade of the country as soon as possible.”
According to the Iranian diplomat, “at a time when we all in Syria and Iraq are talking about the fight against terrorism and that it is necessary to take action, the wrong policies of Saudi Arabia in using force against Yemen have led to an accelerated growth of terrorism in other parts of the Middle East, in Yemen. We express great concern about an increasing growth of terrorism in Yemen in the very near future. Criticizing the actions of the various regional and international organizations and different countries, which lie in the fact that they are silent about what is happening in Yemen, we are attracting international attention to the issue that if we won’t come up with a solution to the Yemeni issue, unfortunately, two phenomena will appear, one is the growth of terrorism, and the second is the flow of refugees to Europe.”
Tehran believes that the way out of the situation in Syria and Yemen is a purely political one. “We support a Yemen, the future of which all the Yemeni sides support. We support a Yemen which lives in peace, in peace and stability with all its neighbors. And we support a Yemen where groups are taking steps to combat terrorism,” Abdollahian said.
