Riyadh (Debriefer) - End of Yemen's war should start with stopping the Iranian interferences and pressing the Houthi group to seriously engage in peace course, the Yemeni information minister tweeted on Wednesday, but this "can only be achieved under political and military pressures on Houthis."
The Yemeni government is keen to end the war, Moammar al-Eryani added in comment to Brookings Institute's report that called on the US President Elect Joe Biden to end Yemen's war for urgently strategic and humanitarian considerations.
Saudi Arabia apparently began war in Yemen to prevent Iran from gaining a foothold in the Arabian Peninsula overlooking the strategic strait of Bab al-Mandeb, the report said Monday.
But after six years, the war further empowered Iran in Yemen, and also triggered the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
"We agree with the Brookings report," Eryani said, but Yemen's war was initiated by the "Iranian-backed Houthi group's coup in 2014 against and national consensus represented by the National Dialogue Conference's outcomes .. in whose wording the Houthis participated."
The minister accused the group of committing "atrocities against the Yemeni people."
Years of war have exposed Iran's involvement in supporting the Houthis with funds, arms and political and military experts in order to tighten grip on Yemen's geography and use the country in targeting Saudi lands and threatening the global energy shipping routes in the Red Sea.
Following a constitutional call from President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the Kingdom supports the UN-recognized government in the face of the Iranian expansionist project, Eryani said.
This support "included humanitarian relief, reconstruction and economic stability."
Since 21 September 2014, Sana'a City and many other Yemeni northern areas have been under Houthi control.
