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| Yemeni premier resigns amid Houthi pressure |
| 2014-10-09 |
| [Iran Press TV] The newly-elected Yemeni premier has resigned amid protests against his appointment to the post by the president. On Wednesday, Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi accepted the resignation by Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak after Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to Americaâ¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... Shia protesters slammed the government's choice. Mubarak made the decision "in a bid to preserve the national unity and protect the country from divisions," he said in a letter to Hadi, in which he requested "to be relieved" of forming a new government. Earlier in the day, Malik al-Houthi, the leader of Yemen's Ansarullah revolutionaries, severely criticized Hadi's Tuesday decision to appoint Mubarak. The Ansarullah activists, who played a key role in the ouster of former dictator President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , have been staging demonstrations in the capital for more than a month, demanding resignation of the government over what they call its corruption and marginalization of the Shia community in Yemen. |
| Posted by:Fred |