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Yemen’s government headed by the Houthi Ansarullah movement appointed its first ambassador to the Islamic Republic, days after a delegation met Iran’s supreme leader Sayyed Ali Khamenei in Tehran, the state-run Saba news agency.
The Houthi-run Al Masirah TV said on Saturday night that Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Dailami had been appointed “ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary for the republic of Yemen to the Islamic Republic of Iran”.
Al-Dailami’s appointment is meant to boost ties between Yemen and Iran, the group’s leader, Sayyed Abdulmalik al-Houthi, said on TV.
Sayyed al-Houthi said the relationship with Tehran will be better than it was in the past as it’s based on “brotherhood and mutual causes,” such as the Palestinian issue.
The resigned regime of former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi suspended diplomatic relations with Tehran in October 2015.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry arranged for the visiting Houthi delegation to meet the British, German, French and Italian ambassadors.
Yemen has been deadlocked in a grinding conflict that has caused what the UN describes as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.
A Saudi-led coalition attacked Yemen in March 2015 to forcefully reinstate the resigned regime of former Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The conflict has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people and displaced about 3.3 million since 2015.
Two-thirds of the population – about 20 million people – require humanitarian support, reported the UN, which is trying to organise peace talks to end the conflict.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
