The Iranian regime is meddling in Yemen and elsewhere in the region, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) foreign minister said on Wednesday, adding Arab states had few grounds for hoping they could build normal ties with Tehran.
Addressing a joint press conference with his Yemeni counterpart Dr Riyadh Yaseen, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed added said that the Saudi-led coalition now fighting Houthis in Yemen wanted a U.N. Security Council resolution requiring all parties to impose a ban on arms purchases by Houthis and other groups “that are out of line”.
“Iran has attacked us at our home in Yemen where our roots are. Tehran is fully and openly supporting the Houthi militants in Yemen, where they have taken arms against a legitimate government and the people and created a chaos,” Sheikh Abdullah told reporters.
“We will not tolerate this and will fight the Houthi militants at all fronts along with our brother states in the region, particularly the GCC,” he added.
“Iran is not carrying out this activity only in Yemen, it is doing the same activity in Lebanon, in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan and in Pakistan.
“Someone might say that the information provided by Yemen is not accurate, but there is systematic action that has been going for years on the idea of exporting the (Iranian) revolution,” Reuters reported.
Dr Riyadh Yaseen said the principle objective behind ‘Operation Decisive Storm’ was to reach a political solution to save Yemen and Yemenis, adding that its authorities had confiscated a large number of ammunition imported from Iran, that was intended for the Houthi militias.
“We have also arrested a number Iranian intelligence agency spies and agents arriving in Yemen to achieve their goal of destabilizing the state and creating ethnic, sectarian and political differences among the people,” Khaleej Times quoted him as saying.
