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Yemen president pledges to fight Iran influence
Aden -- Yemen’s embattled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
He's the guy who replaced Saleh. We put him there. It's working out real well, isn't it...
pledged on Saturday to fight Iran’s influence in his violence-wracked country, accusing the Houthi militia of importing Tehran’s ideology.
How's he going to fight -- run away bravely?
Hadi lashed out at the Iran-backed militia a day after multiple suicide bombings at Houthi mosques claimed by the Daesh group killed 142 people and wounded 351.

The country is on the brink of civil war
Brink?
Like any chasm, there's the near brink, where bad things are about to happen, and the far brink, where you only have one hand and a bloody handkerchief with which to clean up after the zombie apocalypse.
with a deepening political impasse and an increasingly explicit territorial division along sectarian lines, amid rising violence pitting Houthi militia against Sunni tribes and Al Qaeda militants. The Houthis, who seized Sanaa in September, vowed to take further “revolutionary steps” following Friday’s blasts.

In his first televised speech since he fled to Aden from house arrest in Houthi-held Sanaa, Hadi said he would ensure that “the Yemeni republic flag will fly on the Marran mountain in (the militia’s northern stronghold) Saada, instead of the Iranian flag”.

“The Iranian Twelver pattern that has been agreed upon between the Houthis and those who support them will not be accepted by Yemenis,” he said.

In a letter to relatives of the victims of the mosque bombings, which also wounded 351 people, Hadi condemned the attacks as “terrorist, criminal and cowardly”.

“Such heinous attacks could only be done by the enemies of life” who want to drag Yemen into “chaos, violence and internal fighting”, he said.

“Shia extremism, represented by the armed Houthi militia, and Sunni extremism, represented by Al Qaeda, are two sides of the same coin, who do not wish good and stability for Yemen and its people.”

Hadi has declared Aden the country’s temporary capital.
Posted by: Steve White 2015-03-22
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=413361