[Iran Press TV] The United States has "ordered" 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...
, the ousted Yemeni dictator, to leave the Arab country by Friday or face UN sanctions, a report says.
According to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, Saleh's General People's Congress political party said in a statement issued on Wednesday that Matthew H. Tueller, the US ambassador to Yemen, told its officials that the former ruler had to leave Yemen before 5:00 p.m. Friday, otherwise "sanctions will be imposed against him".
"This is a blatant intervention in Yemen's internal affairs," the party said. "It's rejected and unacceptable."
Saleh, who ruled Yemen for 33 years, also angrily dismissed the alleged US demand. "The man has not been created or given birth by his mother yet to tell Ali Abdullah Saleh to leave his country," Saleh wrote on his Facebook page.