The legitimate Yemeni government expressed on Sunday its categorical rejection of Iran’s destabilizing regional policies, accusing Tehran of seeking to drag Yemen to regional conflicts through its backing of militias.
The Iran-backed Houthis joined the regional conflict on Saturday after launching an attack against Israel.
In a statement, the government warned that such actions “are a direct threat to Yemen’s sovereignty and undermine state institutions.”
It stressed that decisions of war and peace must remain “solely in the hands of state authorities.”
It accused the Iranian regime of adopting "subversive” policies aimed at undermining the state and “usurping its sovereign decisions through its support of armed groups that operate outside state authority, starting with the Houthis.”
The government noted that the recent developments are an extension of other actions in the region “where similar Iranian meddling led to the prolongation of conflicts and transformation of countries into open battlegrounds for foreign agendas at the expense of the interests of their people.”
Military operations that take place outside the authority of state institutions are “illegitimate hostile acts”, it added referring to Iran and the Houthis, holding those carrying them out fully responsible for their repercussions.
It warned that the continuation of such a policy “will gravely threaten national security, unity and stability, harm the economy, obstruct supply chains, and raise energy and food costs in a country that is already suffering one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.”
The government called on the international community to take the “firmest position towards the repeated violations of Yemen’s sovereignty and to exert effective pressure that would end foreign meddling and illegal military operations.”
Israel’s military said that its air force had intercepted two drones launched from Yemen early Monday morning.
The Houthis joined the war over the weekend with a missile attack on Israel.
Their entry has raised concerns that they could resume attacks on vessels in the Red Sea further disrupting the global shipping industry and sending oil prices much higher.
