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Yemeni President warns Iran to stop intervening in local issues 

Yemeni President warns Iran to stop intervening in local issues 
posted onOctober 15, 2018
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Yemeni President, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, asked Iranian regime to stop supporting Houthi militias and other southern groups against his government, and further escalating violence in the country. 

His remark on Iran came on Monday during a speech marking the 55th anniversary of the October 14 revolution. 

Hadi declared that Houthi militias are operating by receiving money from Tehran in their Bank accounts in Lebanon. 

Iran has been highly criticized for its interventionist politics in the region, especially in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen, where Saudi Arabia is also believed to have a hand in the Yemeni local conflict. 

An analysis by Haaretz published on October 2018 claimed that “more than 10,000 people killed, half of them were civilians; some 50,000 children were dead of hunger or cholera; millions of people are now displaced,” due to the Yemen civil war. 

Houthi is a Shiite armed group, backed by Iranian regime. The group is officially called Ansar Allah that emerged in North Yemen since 1990.