Iran commander welcomes end of Yemen 'plot'

The head of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard says a plot against Yemen’s Shiite rebels was “nipped in the bud,” apparently referring to the killing of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The rebels killed Saleh yesterday, days after he broke off his alliance with them against a Saudi-led coalition. Iran supports the rebels, known as Houthis, but denies arming them.

Yesterday, Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency quoted Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari as saying that Saudi Arabia, “on behalf of the US and the Zionist regime (Israel), has a very important role in creating insecurity” in the Middle East.
Yemen’s civil war has emerged as one of the main battlegrounds in the Saudi-Iranian rivalry for regional influence.

— AP