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The internationally-recognized governmentof Yemenon Thursday urged the international community to pressure Iran into stopping support forthe Houthi group, in order to restore regional security and stability.
"We call on the international community to exercise pressures on Iran to stop supporting the Houthi militias, to restore the Yemeni state that has been for long a partner for the international community in combating terrorism, to protect global navigation routes and to bring back regional security and stability," Hadi information minister told members of the 'Yemen Friends Group' at the British Labour Party.
Minister Moammar al-Eryani accused Houthis of turning Yemen into a "stage for targeting neighboring countries and jeopardizing the global navigation routes to serve Iran project in the region."
Yemen has been racked by a 4-year bloody conflictbetween the internationally-recognized Yemeni government's forces, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, and the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who ousted the government in 2014.
The Yemeni government and the Saudi-led coalition are accusing Iran of supplying the Houthis with weapons smuggled via regional waters, including ballistic missiles fired at Saudi Arabia, charge rejected by Tehranthat says it supports the rebels politically.
According to the Aden-based Saba, Eryani said his government rejects the use of Yemen's issue as a "debating card between ruling and opposition parties in European countries," without further details.
He called on British parties to back "options of Yemeni people asking for the coup to be ended, state institutions to be restored and federal Yemen to be built according to the National Dialogue outputs, and to draw information from right sources lest these parties be dragged into biased stances."
The "Houthi-backing Iran's and Hezbollah's media depict the events in Yemen in the wrong way, as a Yemeni-Saudi conflict and not a coup led by rebel militias, to mislead the public opinion. Saudis support their Yemeni brethren to restore their state."
Saudi Arabia has been leading a military coalition in Yemen since 26 March 2015, in support of forces loyal to President Hadi to retake areas controlled by Houthis.
The conflict hastriggered what the UN calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis, 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.
Yemeni government is exerting efforts to improve humanitarian situation and pay all civil servants across Yemen, Eryani added noting that 60 percent of salaries have been paid as of last April, with payment expected to reach 70% by the end of this year.
