YEMEN BLAMES IRAN FOR WAR, SAYS IT CAN'T BE PART OF SOLUTION

The war on Yemen

UNITED NATIONS, AP, Aug 21, 2017 -- Yemen's foreign minister blamed Iran and its support for Houthi Shiite rebels on Monday for causing the country's civil war and said it can't be part of the solution.

Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi said at a press conference that Iranian weapons are still being smuggled into Yemen.

Saudi Arabia's U.N. ambassador, Al-Mouallimi, whose country supports Yemen's internationally recognized government, said Iran isn't a neighbor or part of the Arabian Peninsula and he had a more direct message: 'Iran should get the hell out of the area, period.'

The Saudi and Yemeni officials spoke to reporters after a presentation to U.N. diplomats on the path to peace and humanitarian aid to Yemen.

Yemen, which is on the southern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, has been engulfed in civil war since September 2014, when the Houthis swept into the capital of Sanaa and overthrew President Abed-Rabbo Mansour Hadi's internationally recognized government

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