TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV reports that the country’s supreme leader is urging support for Yemen’s Houthis against a Saudi-led coalition that he says is trying to “disintegrate” the country.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met with Mohammad Abdul Salam, the spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarallah Movement, in Tehran today. The group is commonly referred to as the Houthis.
Khamenei says Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and their supporters seek to break up Yemen, “which must stand firm against this conspiracy.”
A Saudi-led coalition that includes the UAE has been battling the Iran-aligned Houthis in northern Yemen since March 2015 on behalf of Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s government.
The conflict in the Arab world’s poorest country is largely seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
— AP
In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, listens to Mohammed Abdul-Salam, spokesman for the Yemen Houthis rebels during their meeting at his residence in Tehran, Iran, August 13, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
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