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8 April 2015
UAE criticizes Iran, offers military aid to Yemen
Shaikh Abdullah also said Iran was involved in creating a disturbing situation around the entire region -- in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Iraq.
The UAE on Wednesday criticized Iran for destabilising the entire Gulf region by politically supporting the Houthis in Yemen and other militants in the region.
Addressing a joint press conference, Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE Foreign Minister, along with his Yemeni counterpart Dr. Riyadh Yaseen, said Tehran was deliberately destabilising the region by dealing in militant activities.
"Iran has attacked at us at our home in Yemen where our roots are. Tehran is fully and openly supporting the Houthi militants in Yemen, where they have taken arms against a legitimate government and the people and created a chaos. We will not tolerate this and will fight the Houthi militants at all fronts along with our brother states in the region, particularly the GCC," Shaikh Abdullah told the press conference.
The UAE Foreign Minister further added that all the regional countries were united in their support for the legitimate Yemeni government and their people.
"We have made all efforts at all levels -- from the UN Security Council to regional level talks -- to bring the Houthi militants to cooperate and stop their aggressive moves in Yemen with the help of Iran, but they have ignored all our these reconciliatory efforts. We are determined to provide all kinds of support -- from military to relief assistance -- to our Yemeni brothers," he said.
Shaikh Abdullah also said Iran was involved in creating a disturbing situation around the entire region -- in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Iraq.
On his part, Dr. Yaseen said the Yemeni authorities have confiscated lots of arms and ammunitions, including sophisticated weapons coming from Iran for Houthi militants.
"We have also arrested a number Iranian intelligence agency spies and agents arriving in Yemen to achieve their goal of destabilising the state and creating ethnic, sectarian and political differences among the people," he told reporters.
UAE criticizes Iran, offers military aid to Yemen - Khaleej Times
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April 8, 2015
Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Foreign Minister, and Riyadh Yassen, Yemeni Foreign Minister.
Ground troops in Yemen cannot be ruled out: UAE Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed
UAE believes in dialogue, but Iran is leaving no room for it
UAE Foreign Minister Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan said on Wednesday that the Saudi-led coalition conducting air strikes in Yemen cannot rule out any options, including ground troops, as he defended the Gulf intervention in the troubled Arab nation.
Shaikh Abdullah made the comments during a visit by Yemeni Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin to Abu Dhabi.
He said Gulf nations such as the UAE that are conducting air strikes against Iranian-backed rebels “will truly regret it” if they do not stand by Yemen’s government.
Shaikh Abdullah characterised the conflict as part of a broader pattern of Iranian effort to export its Islamic revolution and expand its influence in the region.
“Iran leaves no hope for proper dialogue with its neighbours,” he said, adding that while the UAE hopes for future dialogue with the country, all previous attempts to engage with Tehran were in vain.
“We hope Iran would talk to the legitimate Yemeni government if they want to engage in conversation rather than talk to the rebels,” he said.
Yassin said that the Al Houthi rebellion was Iran’s “latest attempt of interference” in the region.
Shaikh Abdullah added that every move made by the coalition in Yemen was coordinated with the embattled Yemeni government. The UAE continued to support dialogue and did not expect the problem to be resolved with military intervention alone, he said.
Speaking a day earlier in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken blamed the violence in Yemen on Al Houthis, and forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, saying that the US is committed to defending Saudi Arabia.
“We have expedited weapons deliveries, we have increased our intelligence sharing, and we have established a joint coordination and planning cell in the Saudi operations centre,” he said in a statement to reporters after meeting with Saudi royals and Yemen’s President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled his country amid rebel advances.
Intelligence sharing includes making available raw aerial imagery the coalition could use to better strike anti-Hadi forces, said a US defence official who was not authorised to comment publicly. Blinken said the US and the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council must coordinate closely and press all parties to seek a political solution.
The US says that the chaos has allowed the local Al Qaida branch, which it considers the world’s most dangerous wing of the group, to make “great gains” on the ground, causing Washington to rethink how it prevents it from launching attacks in the West.
Speaking from Tokyo, Defence Secretary Ash Carter said the collapse of the central government in Yemen makes it harder to conduct counterterrorism operations against Al Qaida, which has ambitions to strike Western targets, including the United States. Regarding the weapons deliveries, he said it involved “some resupply of equipment and munitions” to Saudi Arabia.
The World Health Organisation warned on Tuesday of an unfolding humanitarian crisis, saying at least 560 people, including dozens of children, have been killed, mostly in the air campaign and ground battles. The aid group said that over 1,700 people have been wounded and another 100,000 have fled their homes as fighting has intensified over the past three weeks.
Ground troops in Yemen cannot be ruled out: UAE Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed | GulfNews.com
UAE criticizes Iran, offers military aid to Yemen
Shaikh Abdullah also said Iran was involved in creating a disturbing situation around the entire region -- in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Iraq.
The UAE on Wednesday criticized Iran for destabilising the entire Gulf region by politically supporting the Houthis in Yemen and other militants in the region.
Addressing a joint press conference, Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE Foreign Minister, along with his Yemeni counterpart Dr. Riyadh Yaseen, said Tehran was deliberately destabilising the region by dealing in militant activities.
"Iran has attacked at us at our home in Yemen where our roots are. Tehran is fully and openly supporting the Houthi militants in Yemen, where they have taken arms against a legitimate government and the people and created a chaos. We will not tolerate this and will fight the Houthi militants at all fronts along with our brother states in the region, particularly the GCC," Shaikh Abdullah told the press conference.
The UAE Foreign Minister further added that all the regional countries were united in their support for the legitimate Yemeni government and their people.
"We have made all efforts at all levels -- from the UN Security Council to regional level talks -- to bring the Houthi militants to cooperate and stop their aggressive moves in Yemen with the help of Iran, but they have ignored all our these reconciliatory efforts. We are determined to provide all kinds of support -- from military to relief assistance -- to our Yemeni brothers," he said.
Shaikh Abdullah also said Iran was involved in creating a disturbing situation around the entire region -- in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Iraq.
On his part, Dr. Yaseen said the Yemeni authorities have confiscated lots of arms and ammunitions, including sophisticated weapons coming from Iran for Houthi militants.
"We have also arrested a number Iranian intelligence agency spies and agents arriving in Yemen to achieve their goal of destabilising the state and creating ethnic, sectarian and political differences among the people," he told reporters.
UAE criticizes Iran, offers military aid to Yemen - Khaleej Times
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April 8, 2015
Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Foreign Minister, and Riyadh Yassen, Yemeni Foreign Minister.
Ground troops in Yemen cannot be ruled out: UAE Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed
UAE believes in dialogue, but Iran is leaving no room for it
UAE Foreign Minister Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan said on Wednesday that the Saudi-led coalition conducting air strikes in Yemen cannot rule out any options, including ground troops, as he defended the Gulf intervention in the troubled Arab nation.
Shaikh Abdullah made the comments during a visit by Yemeni Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin to Abu Dhabi.
He said Gulf nations such as the UAE that are conducting air strikes against Iranian-backed rebels “will truly regret it” if they do not stand by Yemen’s government.
Shaikh Abdullah characterised the conflict as part of a broader pattern of Iranian effort to export its Islamic revolution and expand its influence in the region.
“Iran leaves no hope for proper dialogue with its neighbours,” he said, adding that while the UAE hopes for future dialogue with the country, all previous attempts to engage with Tehran were in vain.
“We hope Iran would talk to the legitimate Yemeni government if they want to engage in conversation rather than talk to the rebels,” he said.
Yassin said that the Al Houthi rebellion was Iran’s “latest attempt of interference” in the region.
Shaikh Abdullah added that every move made by the coalition in Yemen was coordinated with the embattled Yemeni government. The UAE continued to support dialogue and did not expect the problem to be resolved with military intervention alone, he said.
Speaking a day earlier in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken blamed the violence in Yemen on Al Houthis, and forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, saying that the US is committed to defending Saudi Arabia.
“We have expedited weapons deliveries, we have increased our intelligence sharing, and we have established a joint coordination and planning cell in the Saudi operations centre,” he said in a statement to reporters after meeting with Saudi royals and Yemen’s President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled his country amid rebel advances.
Intelligence sharing includes making available raw aerial imagery the coalition could use to better strike anti-Hadi forces, said a US defence official who was not authorised to comment publicly. Blinken said the US and the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council must coordinate closely and press all parties to seek a political solution.
The US says that the chaos has allowed the local Al Qaida branch, which it considers the world’s most dangerous wing of the group, to make “great gains” on the ground, causing Washington to rethink how it prevents it from launching attacks in the West.
Speaking from Tokyo, Defence Secretary Ash Carter said the collapse of the central government in Yemen makes it harder to conduct counterterrorism operations against Al Qaida, which has ambitions to strike Western targets, including the United States. Regarding the weapons deliveries, he said it involved “some resupply of equipment and munitions” to Saudi Arabia.
The World Health Organisation warned on Tuesday of an unfolding humanitarian crisis, saying at least 560 people, including dozens of children, have been killed, mostly in the air campaign and ground battles. The aid group said that over 1,700 people have been wounded and another 100,000 have fled their homes as fighting has intensified over the past three weeks.
Ground troops in Yemen cannot be ruled out: UAE Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed | GulfNews.com
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