The Yemeni government called Monday for confronting foreign meddling in the region aiming at “tearing apart the Arab fabric,” including Iran’s interventions and activities to turn Yemen into “an instrument of its expansionist project.”
The calls were voiced by Yemen’s caretaker Information Minister Muammar al-Eryani, in conjunction with the growing destructive role of Iran in Yemen, particularly with the recent appointment of Hassan Irlo as Iran’s ambassador to the Houthis in Sanaa.
In a statement issued Monday, Eryani said: “Yemen and the Arab region have for decades been paying exorbitant prices for the foreign interferences by the expansionary ambitions of some regional parties to recuperate their cherished historical glories, even at the expense of Arab states’ unity, independence, sovereignty, security, stability, and territorial integrity.”
The Minister noted that this phase necessitates unity around the Arab project to preserve the security and stability of Arab states and the interests of their people.
The Yemeni government believes that Iran continues to consolidate its influence in Yemen through its Houthi followers, disregarding the humanitarian consequences of its coup on millions of people.
Few days before the arrival of Irlo in Sanaa, the Houthi militia had celebrated the graduation of a batch of Persian-speaking students under the name of “Qassem Soleimani,” the late Iranian major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), killed last January by a United States drone strike near Baghdad International Airport.
Yemen condemned the Houthi for transforming the country’s flagship University of Sanaa into a radicalization center.
“The Houthi militia has transformed Sanaa University … to a center for brainwashing young men, spreading extremism … and glorifying the symbols of Iranian terrorism whose harm spared no one of the region’s countries,” Eryani said.
