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And yet you are speaking his language not the other way around...
Operation 'Decisive Storm' | Saudi lead coalition operations in Yemen - Updates & Discussions.
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In case that isn't posted, a senior Saudi general was reportedly killed on Yemen border by Houthis (or Yemeni army) while visiting the border area, Prince Fahad bin Turki bin Abdulaziz, the one on the right:
Saudi arms mistakenly air dropped for Houthis in Shabuh province:
Thanks Saudis, but you are doing it wrong.
RPG-26s. Saudi Arabia always buys arms from Croatia and supplies Soviet era arms. Saudi Arabia never supplies Western arms.
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Ur posts show malice to Saudis fact is u r no more different than them, both parties involved in bloodshed in Syria and Yemen. In the past Shia militias were involved in holly sectarian war in Lebanon, even now splinter groups of Shia and Sunnis destroying Mosques and attacking each other from street to street. U may see Ross Kemps tv show in this regard to clear your deluded sectarian eyes.
Please do not disgrace sacred name of Islam in your sectarian wars and hatred.
What happens to Sunnis in Iran u know better please do some research work and same is case in KSA with Irani pilgrims.
Both parties should be ashamed of themselves and call for their redemption from Allah otherwise both parties should wait for judgement day. The innocent dead children, women and men shall curse both parties forever.
The enemies of Islam are smiling on bloody sectarian vultures.
Please do not disgrace sacred name of Islam in your sectarian wars and hatred.
What happens to Sunnis in Iran u know better please do some research work and same is case in KSA with Irani pilgrims.
Both parties should be ashamed of themselves and call for their redemption from Allah otherwise both parties should wait for judgement day. The innocent dead children, women and men shall curse both parties forever.
The enemies of Islam are smiling on bloody sectarian vultures.
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This will help gulfies lack ground capabilities :
I propose that Pakistan should send the local Taliban, as well as other militant and religious groups who are coming out in support of Riyadh, to go and defend Saudi Arabia. Pakistani militant commanders and religious ideologues can not only prove a formidable tool in Saudi Arabia’s proxy wars, we can also fund religious seminaries and training centers in the country to help them raise a generation of their own militants who would fight to protect Islam as and when required.
The Saudis may learn even more from the Taliban about how to stop differentiating between civilian and military targets and cause indiscriminate suffering. Pakistani religious groups may also guide Riyadh and its allies on how to suppress or kill Shias.
The move will be beneficial for Pakistan in other ways. We have been trying to fight violent extremism for years now. We have established that the root causes of extremism are poverty and a lack of awareness. When the Taliban will travel to other parts of the world, it will broaden their horizons. As they will see the world outside Pakistan, they will encounter various cultures and customs and will slowly realize the importance of pluralism and harmony.
How to protect Saudi Arabia
Gotta love what writer is implying especially with the end of the first paragraph. Still this doesn't come close to the gravitas of The sweet sound of a glorious oil-drenched slap
Houthis and army inflicted heavy losses on a prominent tribe from Marib yesterday.
I propose that Pakistan should send the local Taliban, as well as other militant and religious groups who are coming out in support of Riyadh, to go and defend Saudi Arabia. Pakistani militant commanders and religious ideologues can not only prove a formidable tool in Saudi Arabia’s proxy wars, we can also fund religious seminaries and training centers in the country to help them raise a generation of their own militants who would fight to protect Islam as and when required.
The Saudis may learn even more from the Taliban about how to stop differentiating between civilian and military targets and cause indiscriminate suffering. Pakistani religious groups may also guide Riyadh and its allies on how to suppress or kill Shias.
The move will be beneficial for Pakistan in other ways. We have been trying to fight violent extremism for years now. We have established that the root causes of extremism are poverty and a lack of awareness. When the Taliban will travel to other parts of the world, it will broaden their horizons. As they will see the world outside Pakistan, they will encounter various cultures and customs and will slowly realize the importance of pluralism and harmony.
How to protect Saudi Arabia
Gotta love what writer is implying especially with the end of the first paragraph. Still this doesn't come close to the gravitas of The sweet sound of a glorious oil-drenched slapHouthis and army inflicted heavy losses on a prominent tribe from Marib yesterday.
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Hamas, PA could be next pawns in Saudi-Iranian proxy war
By Paul Alster
Published April 15, 2015
FoxNews.com
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (r.) talks with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Reuters)
Top Palestinian Authority officials are appealing to Saudi Arabia to use an "iron hand" toward Iranian-backed rival Hamas, a development that underscores the ill will within the so-called unity government and could become the latest front for the proxy war between the Middle East powers.
With the Saudis indirectly engaging Iran in Yemen, where the Kingdom is trying to help the government put down the rebellion by the Iranian-supported Houthis, PA officials are asking the Saudis to do the same to Hamas. The PA, which claims to represent all Palestinians, governs the West Bank, while Hamas controls Gaza. The uneasy alliance between the two has degenerated into rancor in recent months, especially after Hamas declared in November that their unity government had ended.
“The Arab nation has to attack any illegal side in the Arab region with an iron hand,” Mahmoud Al-Habbash, religious advisor and close confidante of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, told worshippers in Ramallah recently. “It has to start from Palestine,” said Al-Habbash, adding that Hamas “must be attacked with an iron hand.”
Khaled Abu Toameh, of the Gatestone Institute, said there is irony in PA's call.
“The Palestinian Authority is calling on Arab countries to launch a military strike against the Gaza Strip -- even as the PA plans to bring "war crimes" charges against Israel for doing exactly the same thing in the summer of 2014,” Toameh said.
Any remaining public veneer of cooperation between the two sides fell apart this weekend as Hamas hit back, calling for Abbas to “quit the political scene,” citing his “personal intransigence and total refusal to share powers.”
Both parties are under considerable pressure at the moment. Hamas, whose repeated cross-border missile attacks into Israel and terror tunnel infrastructure prompted a devastating 50-day war last summer - has seen the billions of dollars of aid pledged by the Arab world for rebuilding Gaza fail to materialize. Its clandestine supply tunnels from Egyptian-controlled Sinai into the Strip have also been decimated and remain mostly locked down. Egypt, which is allied with Saudi Arabia in the Yemen effort, is also a staunch supporter of the Palestinian Authority.
Despite being at odds with Egypt, Israel and the PA, Hamas has a reliable backer in Iran, which both before and since the signing of the nuclear deal in Lausanne last month has brazenly armed and financed the internationally designated terrorist organization, while doing the same for Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria and, most recently, the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
“Iran has sent Hamas’s military wing tens of millions of dollars to help it rebuild the network of tunnels in Gaza,” Britain’s The Sunday Telegraph reported last week. “It is also funding new missile supplies to replenish stocks used to bombard residential neighborhoods in Israel during the war. The renewed funding is a sign that the two old allies are putting behind them a rift caused by the conflict in Syria, where Shia Iran is backing President Bashar al-Assad against Hamas’s mainly Sunni allies.”
The Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, based in the West Bank, is also broke and has long been well aware of Hamas’ attempts to undermine its power. The bitter in-fighting between the broadly secular Palestinian Authority and the Islamist Hamas stretches back over 20 years. It includes the hotly contested Gaza elections of 2006, which were won by Hamas – no elections have been held since - and which a year later prompted a violent purge by Hamas of Fatah supporters in Gaza that effectively led to a brief period of civil war.
The adversarial relationship between the two Palestinian groups is not new, but it may be reaching a boiling point, especially if both sides call in their benefactors, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Caught in the middle will be the mostly poor Palestinians who the PA and Hamas seek to govern.
“The split between the two is irreconcilable," Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told FoxNews.com “You are watching a tug of war between the two sides for the soul of the Palestinian people.”
Paul Alster is an Israel-based journalist. Follow him on Twitter @paul_alster and visit his website: www.paulalster.com.
By Paul Alster
Published April 15, 2015
FoxNews.com
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (r.) talks with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Reuters)
Top Palestinian Authority officials are appealing to Saudi Arabia to use an "iron hand" toward Iranian-backed rival Hamas, a development that underscores the ill will within the so-called unity government and could become the latest front for the proxy war between the Middle East powers.
With the Saudis indirectly engaging Iran in Yemen, where the Kingdom is trying to help the government put down the rebellion by the Iranian-supported Houthis, PA officials are asking the Saudis to do the same to Hamas. The PA, which claims to represent all Palestinians, governs the West Bank, while Hamas controls Gaza. The uneasy alliance between the two has degenerated into rancor in recent months, especially after Hamas declared in November that their unity government had ended.
“The Arab nation has to attack any illegal side in the Arab region with an iron hand,” Mahmoud Al-Habbash, religious advisor and close confidante of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, told worshippers in Ramallah recently. “It has to start from Palestine,” said Al-Habbash, adding that Hamas “must be attacked with an iron hand.”
“You are watching a tug of war between the two sides for the soul of the Palestinian people.”
- Jonathan Schanzer, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
- Jonathan Schanzer, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Khaled Abu Toameh, of the Gatestone Institute, said there is irony in PA's call.
“The Palestinian Authority is calling on Arab countries to launch a military strike against the Gaza Strip -- even as the PA plans to bring "war crimes" charges against Israel for doing exactly the same thing in the summer of 2014,” Toameh said.
Any remaining public veneer of cooperation between the two sides fell apart this weekend as Hamas hit back, calling for Abbas to “quit the political scene,” citing his “personal intransigence and total refusal to share powers.”
Both parties are under considerable pressure at the moment. Hamas, whose repeated cross-border missile attacks into Israel and terror tunnel infrastructure prompted a devastating 50-day war last summer - has seen the billions of dollars of aid pledged by the Arab world for rebuilding Gaza fail to materialize. Its clandestine supply tunnels from Egyptian-controlled Sinai into the Strip have also been decimated and remain mostly locked down. Egypt, which is allied with Saudi Arabia in the Yemen effort, is also a staunch supporter of the Palestinian Authority.
Despite being at odds with Egypt, Israel and the PA, Hamas has a reliable backer in Iran, which both before and since the signing of the nuclear deal in Lausanne last month has brazenly armed and financed the internationally designated terrorist organization, while doing the same for Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria and, most recently, the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
“Iran has sent Hamas’s military wing tens of millions of dollars to help it rebuild the network of tunnels in Gaza,” Britain’s The Sunday Telegraph reported last week. “It is also funding new missile supplies to replenish stocks used to bombard residential neighborhoods in Israel during the war. The renewed funding is a sign that the two old allies are putting behind them a rift caused by the conflict in Syria, where Shia Iran is backing President Bashar al-Assad against Hamas’s mainly Sunni allies.”
The Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, based in the West Bank, is also broke and has long been well aware of Hamas’ attempts to undermine its power. The bitter in-fighting between the broadly secular Palestinian Authority and the Islamist Hamas stretches back over 20 years. It includes the hotly contested Gaza elections of 2006, which were won by Hamas – no elections have been held since - and which a year later prompted a violent purge by Hamas of Fatah supporters in Gaza that effectively led to a brief period of civil war.
The adversarial relationship between the two Palestinian groups is not new, but it may be reaching a boiling point, especially if both sides call in their benefactors, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Caught in the middle will be the mostly poor Palestinians who the PA and Hamas seek to govern.
“The split between the two is irreconcilable," Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told FoxNews.com “You are watching a tug of war between the two sides for the soul of the Palestinian people.”
Paul Alster is an Israel-based journalist. Follow him on Twitter @paul_alster and visit his website: www.paulalster.com.
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Instead of cursing KSA pro Iranian's have not given me any answer why they got involved in Lebanon internal skirmishes of Shia, Sunni and Christian Militias and killed thousands of innocent people, similar is story in Syria. No doubt KSA has played negative part but mostly it was suppression of ordinary people/majority Sunni wishes which caused the bloodshed their. Even news of rape and murder are also coming along with Syrian armed forces use of chemical weapons.
So how much Iran is less brutal than KSA.
So how much Iran is less brutal than KSA.
This map is not correct.
This map is correct.
Iraqi Shia prime minister blasts Saudi attack of Yemen
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/w...ticizes-saudi-intervention-in-yemen.html?_r=0
This map is correct.
Iraqi Shia prime minister blasts Saudi attack of Yemen
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/w...ticizes-saudi-intervention-in-yemen.html?_r=0
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Name me one country where Iran has been proudly sending in jets to bomb the country for 20 days (so far).
None. Iran is not an aggressor state.
Iraq threatened by Saudi aggression.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/w...ticizes-saudi-intervention-in-yemen.html?_r=0
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Apr 15, 2015, SPA -- Brig. Gen. Ahmed bin Hasan Asiri, Consultant at the Minister of Defense's Office and Spokesman of the Coalition Forces, said that the Houthi militias are in a bad condition following the abandoning of a number of brigades including 123, 127 and 133 the Houthis ranks in support of legitimacy in Yemen, reiterating his call for other brigade commanders to come back to the support for legitimacy to evade the coalition airstrikes.
In his daily press briefing held today at Riyadh Airbase, Asiri said that all signs indicate the Houthi militias have lost concentration and have random and isolated operations as they are trying to re-deploy through moving some tanks towards Aden and other sites in addition to their attempt to deploy some airplanes of the Yemeni army, which the coalition forces possess information of their locations inside hideouts. It was previously decided to keep those planes intact for use of Yemeni armed forces after wiping out the Houthi militias but this new development, mainly Houthi moving of the planes from their hideouts, triggered the coalition forces to launch immediate attack targeting them, resulting in the destroy of a big number of them yesterday.
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20:48 LOCAL TIME 17:48 GMT
Brig. Gen. pointed that the coalition forces yesterday detected movements of Houthi militias and their attempts to reorganize and concentrate their ranks in Saadah region, near Midi port, Sana'a, Hodeida, Ib, Baida and Aden, hence, the coalition forces directed their operations to those areas in order to crush these movements and fend off their redeployment.
The coalition forces are going on carrying out their operations, targeting ammunition and ordnance stores since the beginning of Determination Storm, as it executed some air droppings of arms, equipment and medical support, in a number of spots for the tribesmen and People's Committees, he stated.
On the situation in Aden, Assiri disclosed that members of the Houthi militia are still hidden in some quarters in Aden and going on with targeting houses and the citizens, indicating that yesterday the coalition forces hit aircrafts at Dilami airbase as well as stores in Hodeida where the Houthis moved a SAM missile from it.
On land operations, he said that in turn, land forces and Border Guards are targeting gatherings and movements along the border, explaining that there are almost daily movements by the militias towards the Saudi southern borders, mainly in Najran sector and that the land forces yesterday launched an operation on these elements and eliminated them, reaffirming that the situation is still under control there.
Assiri said that the naval forces of the coalition continue to do their tasks to facilitate ships navigation from and to Yemeni ports in addition to checkups to prevent providing the Houthis with provisions pointing that the pace of work there is good and is done as planned.
--more
22:37 LOCAL TIME 19:37 GMT
In his daily press briefing held today at Riyadh Airbase, Asiri said that all signs indicate the Houthi militias have lost concentration and have random and isolated operations as they are trying to re-deploy through moving some tanks towards Aden and other sites in addition to their attempt to deploy some airplanes of the Yemeni army, which the coalition forces possess information of their locations inside hideouts. It was previously decided to keep those planes intact for use of Yemeni armed forces after wiping out the Houthi militias but this new development, mainly Houthi moving of the planes from their hideouts, triggered the coalition forces to launch immediate attack targeting them, resulting in the destroy of a big number of them yesterday.
--More
20:48 LOCAL TIME 17:48 GMT
Brig. Gen. pointed that the coalition forces yesterday detected movements of Houthi militias and their attempts to reorganize and concentrate their ranks in Saadah region, near Midi port, Sana'a, Hodeida, Ib, Baida and Aden, hence, the coalition forces directed their operations to those areas in order to crush these movements and fend off their redeployment.
The coalition forces are going on carrying out their operations, targeting ammunition and ordnance stores since the beginning of Determination Storm, as it executed some air droppings of arms, equipment and medical support, in a number of spots for the tribesmen and People's Committees, he stated.
On the situation in Aden, Assiri disclosed that members of the Houthi militia are still hidden in some quarters in Aden and going on with targeting houses and the citizens, indicating that yesterday the coalition forces hit aircrafts at Dilami airbase as well as stores in Hodeida where the Houthis moved a SAM missile from it.
On land operations, he said that in turn, land forces and Border Guards are targeting gatherings and movements along the border, explaining that there are almost daily movements by the militias towards the Saudi southern borders, mainly in Najran sector and that the land forces yesterday launched an operation on these elements and eliminated them, reaffirming that the situation is still under control there.
Assiri said that the naval forces of the coalition continue to do their tasks to facilitate ships navigation from and to Yemeni ports in addition to checkups to prevent providing the Houthis with provisions pointing that the pace of work there is good and is done as planned.
--more
22:37 LOCAL TIME 19:37 GMT
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April 15, 2015
Armed Saudi volunteers, from the Fayfa tribes, stand atop an ancient tower during a tribal gathering in the Jizan province, near the Saudi-Yemeni border, on April 14, 2015. The tribes have decided to support Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz and defend their mountainous area from any attack from the Yemeni side.
Egypt and Saudi mull ‘large-scale’ military drills as Yemen strikes continue
Saudi Arabia and Egypt are considering whether to hold “large-scale” military exercises in the kingdom, as airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeted Shiite Houthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen on Wednesday.
Warplanes targeted rebel positions in and around the southern city of Aden after overnight attacks by anti-government forces killed seven people, according to military sources and medics.
Residents said the rebels “randomly” shelled residential areas in the city, killing at least three civilians, while four armed supporters of president Abdrabu Mansur Hadi were shot dead.
Airstrikes also targeted rebel positions west of Aden in Ras Imran, where heavy clashes have been raging as the rebels try to advance towards the city’s strategic refinery. Three southern fighters were killed in the fighting, a local hospital medic said.
The rebels appear to be trying to seize petrol reserves stored at the refinery as the country suffers a huge shortage of fuel. Reinforcements, including tanks commanded by rebel troops, arrived in Ras Imran on Wednesday from the province of Lahj.
Meanwhile, in a possible sign that the coalition’s air campaign may expand into a ground operation, Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s office said late on Tuesday that Cairo and Riyadh were considering military drills with other Arabian Gulf countries participating.
“It was decided to form a joint military committee to look into a large-scale strategic manoeuvre on Saudi territory,” said Mr El Sisi’s office after the president met with the Saudi defence minister.
Saudi Arabia and a coalition of Arab countries launched the air strikes on March 26, after the Iran-backed rebels seized the capital Sanaa last year and advanced on the main southern city of Aden, where Mr Hadi had taken refuge.
The Yemeni president fled to Riyadh from Aden, which has since seen heavy fighting between pro and anti-government forces.
Saudi Arabia has accused Iran of arming the rebels, something that Tehran has denied.
Iran’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that his country would use all its influence to broker a peace deal for Yemen in order to end the Saudi-led air strikes.
“We are a major force in the region and we have relations with all groups in various countries, and we are going to use that in order to bring everybody to the negotiating table, to the point that we can,” said Mohammed Javad Zarif.
“We have influence with a lot of groups in Yemen, not just the Houthis and the Shia.”
He added that Iran had already consulted with Turkey and Pakistan, two majority-Sunni allies of Saudi Arabia, and Oman, the Gulf country that maintains the closest ties with Iran. None of the three has joined the Saudi-led air campaign against the Houthis.
World powers united against the rebels on Tuesday, with the UN security council voting to impose an arms embargo on their leaders.
The UN resolution – the first formal action taken by the security council since the start of the Saudi-led raids – demands that the Houthis withdraw from Sanaa and all other areas they have seized.
It also slaps an arms embargo on former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and his eldest son, Ahmed.
The Houthis have allied with troops loyal to Mr Saleh, who was forced from power in 2012 following a year of nationwide protests against his three-decade rule.
Yemeni military sources said on Wednesday that three weeks of Saudi-led airstrikes had led to defections of army units loyal to Mr Saleh, dealing a blow to his efforts to stage a comeback.
The Houthis and pro-Saleh army units have been fighting alongside each other on several fronts against militia forces loyal to Mr Hadi.
But sources said the Saudi-led bombing campaign has already led five pro-Saleh military brigades to defect. One of those battled Houthis in the province of Taiz on Wednesday, they said.
With civilian casualties mounting and agencies struggling to bring in aid, there have been warnings of a major humanitarian crisis in the already-impoverished country.
Residents have said they are suffering from major food and water shortages, with many afraid to leave their homes for fear of being caught in the crossfire.
The World Health Organization says at least 736 people have died in the conflict since April 12 and more than 2,700 have been wounded
Egypt and Saudi mull âlarge-scaleâ military drills as Yemen strikes continue | The National
Armed Saudi volunteers, from the Fayfa tribes, stand atop an ancient tower during a tribal gathering in the Jizan province, near the Saudi-Yemeni border, on April 14, 2015. The tribes have decided to support Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz and defend their mountainous area from any attack from the Yemeni side.
Egypt and Saudi mull ‘large-scale’ military drills as Yemen strikes continue
Saudi Arabia and Egypt are considering whether to hold “large-scale” military exercises in the kingdom, as airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeted Shiite Houthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen on Wednesday.
Warplanes targeted rebel positions in and around the southern city of Aden after overnight attacks by anti-government forces killed seven people, according to military sources and medics.
Residents said the rebels “randomly” shelled residential areas in the city, killing at least three civilians, while four armed supporters of president Abdrabu Mansur Hadi were shot dead.
Airstrikes also targeted rebel positions west of Aden in Ras Imran, where heavy clashes have been raging as the rebels try to advance towards the city’s strategic refinery. Three southern fighters were killed in the fighting, a local hospital medic said.
The rebels appear to be trying to seize petrol reserves stored at the refinery as the country suffers a huge shortage of fuel. Reinforcements, including tanks commanded by rebel troops, arrived in Ras Imran on Wednesday from the province of Lahj.
Meanwhile, in a possible sign that the coalition’s air campaign may expand into a ground operation, Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s office said late on Tuesday that Cairo and Riyadh were considering military drills with other Arabian Gulf countries participating.
“It was decided to form a joint military committee to look into a large-scale strategic manoeuvre on Saudi territory,” said Mr El Sisi’s office after the president met with the Saudi defence minister.
Saudi Arabia and a coalition of Arab countries launched the air strikes on March 26, after the Iran-backed rebels seized the capital Sanaa last year and advanced on the main southern city of Aden, where Mr Hadi had taken refuge.
The Yemeni president fled to Riyadh from Aden, which has since seen heavy fighting between pro and anti-government forces.
Saudi Arabia has accused Iran of arming the rebels, something that Tehran has denied.
Iran’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that his country would use all its influence to broker a peace deal for Yemen in order to end the Saudi-led air strikes.
“We are a major force in the region and we have relations with all groups in various countries, and we are going to use that in order to bring everybody to the negotiating table, to the point that we can,” said Mohammed Javad Zarif.
“We have influence with a lot of groups in Yemen, not just the Houthis and the Shia.”
He added that Iran had already consulted with Turkey and Pakistan, two majority-Sunni allies of Saudi Arabia, and Oman, the Gulf country that maintains the closest ties with Iran. None of the three has joined the Saudi-led air campaign against the Houthis.
World powers united against the rebels on Tuesday, with the UN security council voting to impose an arms embargo on their leaders.
The UN resolution – the first formal action taken by the security council since the start of the Saudi-led raids – demands that the Houthis withdraw from Sanaa and all other areas they have seized.
It also slaps an arms embargo on former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and his eldest son, Ahmed.
The Houthis have allied with troops loyal to Mr Saleh, who was forced from power in 2012 following a year of nationwide protests against his three-decade rule.
Yemeni military sources said on Wednesday that three weeks of Saudi-led airstrikes had led to defections of army units loyal to Mr Saleh, dealing a blow to his efforts to stage a comeback.
The Houthis and pro-Saleh army units have been fighting alongside each other on several fronts against militia forces loyal to Mr Hadi.
But sources said the Saudi-led bombing campaign has already led five pro-Saleh military brigades to defect. One of those battled Houthis in the province of Taiz on Wednesday, they said.
With civilian casualties mounting and agencies struggling to bring in aid, there have been warnings of a major humanitarian crisis in the already-impoverished country.
Residents have said they are suffering from major food and water shortages, with many afraid to leave their homes for fear of being caught in the crossfire.
The World Health Organization says at least 736 people have died in the conflict since April 12 and more than 2,700 have been wounded
Egypt and Saudi mull âlarge-scaleâ military drills as Yemen strikes continue | The National
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The problem for the Zionists Arab Regimes it's not Iran are their corrupt incompetent leadership who pissed so much their own people.
*Egypt killed 1,000+ Morsi Supported in just a single day.
*Arab Saudi is the best example in this place the women cant vote or drive a car but they blame to shias all the internal problems who they can have
*In Libya all the "Sunnis" Factions are killing each others
But they blame to Iran all their problems, when the real problems are themselves they are too pro West -Too pro Israel.
*Egypt killed 1,000+ Morsi Supported in just a single day.
*Arab Saudi is the best example in this place the women cant vote or drive a car but they blame to shias all the internal problems who they can have
*In Libya all the "Sunnis" Factions are killing each others
But they blame to Iran all their problems, when the real problems are themselves they are too pro West -Too pro Israel.
