Inspired by Assad’s fall, Yemeni minister says Iran-backed Houthis can be ousted too

By AP 8 December 2024, 11:00 am

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Moammar al-Eryani, information minister of Yemen’s internationally recognized government, says Iran’s “expansionist project, which used sectarian militias as tools to complete the Persian Crescent, sow chaos, undermine the sovereignty of states … is collapsing,” as rebel groups take over the Syrian capital, Damascus.

He also expresses hope that Yemenis will drive out the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who seized the capital, Sanaa, and much of the country’s north in 2014.

“The Yemenis, with their wisdom and steadfastness, are able to thwart the plans of Iran and its Houthi tool to violate their land and tamper with their destiny, just as those plans failed in Syria and Lebanon,” he writes on social media platform X.