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  Updated: October 30, 2009

Iran refutes instigating turmoil in Yemen

By: Darwesh Turk

PARIS, France: Iran denied Tehran is triggering unrest in Yemen and offered to take on a mediator role to help end fighting between the Yemeni government and Houthis.

An Iranian state-run broadcaster Press TV cited Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi as saying: “Iran’s Foreign Ministry in its contacts with the Yemeni government has always voiced the country’s readiness to present an initiative necessary for ending the conflict.”

“We believe that the issue does not have a military solution,” Vahidi said, adding that Iran isn’t involved in Yemen’s internal politics and doesn’t support Shiite militants in Yemen. “Such reports are baseless and aimed at inciting discord between the countries of the region.”

According to Yemen’s navy it seized an Iranian-crewed ship loaded with weapons on Oct. 26 near an area of its Red Sea coast where the Houthis have a stronghold.

The ship was carrying Iranian weapons specialists, the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television channel said, without saying where it obtained the information.

The government of Yemen accused Iran of “funding and backing the Houthis”.


 
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