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| Iran issues warning over Yemen air strikes |
| 2015-06-10 |
| [Al Ahram] Iran has told the UN Security Council that Saudi-led air strikes have twice hit close to its embassy in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and warned of "serious consequences" if more such bombings occur. Iran's ambassador to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Gholamali Khoshroo said in a letter released Tuesday that the embassy in Sanaa suffered severe damage during air strikes on May 25 and that this followed a similar attack on April 20. "I would like to warn that a repetition of similar air strikes close to my country's diplomatic representation in the future can have serious consequences, including for the safety and security of Iranian diplomats in Sanaa," Khoshroo wrote in the letter to the 15-member council. The Saudi-led coalition launched air strikes on Yemen on March 26 to push back an offensive by Iranian-backed Shia 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 America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... rebels who had seized Sanaa and were advancing on the southern city of Aden. President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi was forced to flee into exile in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... during the Houthi advance on Aden. In his letter, the Iranian ambassador requested that the Security Council urgently address the Saudi-led air campaign, now in its 11th week. The United Nations will open a round of talks in Geneva on Sunday between Hadi's government, the Houthi rebels and other political parties to end the violence in Yemen and chart a course on a political settlement. |
| Posted by:Fred |