{"id":5488,"date":"2016-09-17T21:44:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T02:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=5488"},"modified":"2016-09-17T21:44:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T02:44:41","slug":"yemeni-fm-slams-iran-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/5488\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni FM slams Iran interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/201691718313166564581_Yemeni-Foreign-Minister-Abdulmalak-Al-Makhlafi-said-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5489 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/201691718313166564581_Yemeni-Foreign-Minister-Abdulmalak-Al-Makhlafi-said--300x169.jpg\" alt=\"201691718313166564581_yemeni-foreign-minister-abdulmalak-al-makhlafi-said\" width=\"353\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/201691718313166564581_Yemeni-Foreign-Minister-Abdulmalak-Al-Makhlafi-said--300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/201691718313166564581_Yemeni-Foreign-Minister-Abdulmalak-Al-Makhlafi-said-.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/a>Al Arabiya , 17 September 2016 &#8211;<\/strong>Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdulmalak Al-Makhlafi said that Iran is continuing with its interferences in his conflict-torn country, and urged Tehran to stop, Al Arabiya News Channel reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Makhlafi stressed Yemen\u2019s desire for peace during his address at a preparatory meeting for the Non-Aligned Movement summit which kick started on Saturday in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders from the 120-nation group have gathered for two days on the Caribbean island of Margarita, where Venezuela will take over the movement\u2019s rotating presidency from Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said Yemen had to seek help from the Saudi-led Arab Coalition after Iran-backed Houthi militias and allied forces loyal to deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh attempted a coup in September 2014.<\/p>\n<p>After Houthis took control over the capital Sanaa, the internationally recognized President Abedrabbu Mansour Hadi had to move to Aden.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi-led coalition launched its military campaign in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mojahedin.org\/eventsen\/47\" target=\"_blank\"> March 20 <\/a>15 as Houthi rebels closed in on Hadi in his refuge in Aden, forcing him into exile.<\/p>\n<p>In a related story, the Yemeni Army\u2019s Deputy Chief of Staff Major General Nasser al-Taheri said in an interview published on Saturday by the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat that light and medium weapon shipments were seized on the borders, coming from Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mojahedin.org\/eventsen\/121\" target=\"_blank\"> United Nations <\/a> said at least 10,000 have been killed in the Yemeni conflict as of September this year. The conflict has also displaced three million Yemenis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Al Arabiya , 17 September 2016 &#8211;Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdulmalak Al-Makhlafi said that Iran is continuing with its interferences in his conflict-torn country, and urged <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/5488\/\" title=\"Yemeni FM slams Iran interference\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran-world","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5490,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions\/5490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}