TEHRAN – The continuing blockade of ports in Yemen must be lifted, a senior United Nations humanitarian official urged, calling for greater access to more than eight million people on the verge of famine. Speaking from Sana’a, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen Jamie McGoldrick said that “the lives of millions of people, including 8.4 […]

TEHRAN – Ali Akbar Velayati, an international adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, said a plot hatched against Yemen’s people ended in failure with the death of the country’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, adding that Saleh got what he deserved as a result of his actions. “The plot hatched by (the United […]

TEHRAN– The Chief-Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari has hailed the foiling of a plot against the Houthi Ansarullah movement. “We witnessed what a coup they wanted to mount against the warriors and Ansarullah in Yemen, but the plot was nipped in the bud,” General Jafari said in […]

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on the parties to the conflict in Yemen to cease all air and ground assaults. Expressing deep concern about the “sharp escalation” of armed clashes and airstrikes in the capital, Sana’a, and other parts of the war-torn country over the past several days, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres […]

TEHRAN– Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has fired a cruise missile toward a nuclear power plant in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, the group’s television network said on its website on Sunday. “The missile force announces the launching of a winged cruise missile … toward the al-Barakah nuclear reactor in Abu Dhabi,” the website […]

TEHRAN – President, prime minister, foreign minister and the information minister of the Sana’a-based ruling executive body dubbed as ‘Yemen’s Supreme Political Council’ strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula that killed over 300 people. In separate statements released by Yemen’s Saba News Agency, President Saleh al-Sammad, Prime Minister Abdulaziz bin Habtoor, Foreign […]

TEHRAN  – Saudi warplanes carried out new airstrikes against several areas across Yemen, inflicting more human loss and material damage on the country. The Saudi warplanes launched on Saturday four raids on northern province of Sa’ada, a security official told Yemen’s Saba News Agency. The Saudi fighter jets carried out two raids on al-Hamaqi and […]

TEHRAN – Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah Movement’s Spokesperson Mohamed Abdel Salam strongly condemned Friday deadly terrorist attack in the Egypt, which killed and wounded hundreds of people. “We strongly condemn the criminal action in which a mosque in north Sinai was targeted,” the Yemeni official said, Beirut based al-Manar TV network reported. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah […]

TEHRAN– Rouhani said that after the end of ISIL, the fight against terrorism in the region should continue, adding “Iran urges end to Yemen’s bombing and the launch of Yemeni-Yemeni talks. President Rouhani made the remarks in a phone conversation with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday and discussed the most important bilateral, regional and international issues. Rouhani […]

In his message on Monday to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif asked the international community to get more responsibly and effectively engaged in ending the senseless war and establishing a ceasefire in Yemen. Following is the full text of Dr. Zarif’s message to António Guterres: In the name of God, […]