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Yemeni President welcomed on Wednesday results concluded by a UN Sanctions Committee team on Iran's involvement in supporting the Houthi group with weapons and oil revenues.
At his meeting with the team chaired by Gustavo Meza Cuadra, President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi hailed this committee as real representative of "international will in terms of supporting political transition" and can define those "who threaten peace and security in Yemen."
Houthis "don't want peace and take the way of dodging, obduracy and procrastination" in dealing with Stockholm peace pact, the Aden-based Saba News Agency quoted Hadi as saying.
Tasked with monitoring of sanctions on Yemen, the UN panel said, in its 2018 report issued last January that Houthis received at least US$ 300 million a year in revenues of fuel shipped from Iran's ports to fund their war against the Saudi-backed official government of Hadi.
The rebels also collect annually some US$ 740 million in the form of revenues from firms and permit fees from communication, tobacco and other companies, according to the report.
Fees imposed on fuel imports through Hodeida port provide the Iranian-backed group with no less than US$ 300 million, in addition to revenues from fuel sold at black market, the paned said noting that the Houthis had several resources including customs levies collected at rebel-held Red Sea ports and Dhamar City.
Yemen has been racked by an armed conflict that broke out after the Iranian-backed Houthis had ousted the internationally recognized government late in 2014.
The conflict escalated after a Saudi-led coalition intervened militarily in the country in March 2015 to reinstate the government of President Hadi.
The Yemeni capital of Sana'a, western port city of Hodeida and most populated areas in the north are under Houthi control.
Houthis have also established new tax zone in the central city of Ibb to levy on all commodities imported via the Arabian Sea port city of Aden, although duties on such goods had already collected by authorities of the official government.
The 4-year war has pushed the country to the world's worst humanitarian crisis, according to the UN, with most of the population in need for a type of humanitarian aid and immediate protection, including 14 million people risking famine and some 1.8 million children suffering malnutrition.
