{"id":31094,"date":"2016-12-15T01:27:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/saudi-king-challenges-foreign-menace-in-yemen\/"},"modified":"2016-12-15T01:26:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T01:26:52","slug":"saudi-king-challenges-foreign-menace-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/saudi-king-challenges-foreign-menace-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi king challenges foreign ‘menace’ in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"

{King Salman says his kingdom will not tolerate any external “interference” in war-torn neighbouring Yemen.}<\/p>\n

King Salman of Saudi Arabia has warned against external “interference in the internal affairs” of neighbouring war-torn Yemen.<\/p>\n

The monarch also said on Wednesday his country would never accept that Yemen “becomes a base or a point of passage for whatever state or party to menace the security or the stability of the kingdom and of the region”.<\/p>\n

Salman did not explicitly refer to the kingdom’s regional rival Iran, but Saudi officials have accused Tehran and the Lebanese Shia armed group Hezbollah of aiding Houthi rebels in Yemen.<\/p>\n

International investigators last month said they had found a suspected “weapon pipeline” from Iran through Somalia to Yemen.<\/p>\n

British-based Conflict Armament Research, which is primarily funded by the European Union, analysed photographs of weapons including assault rifles and rocket launchers to draw its conclusions.<\/p>\n

Iran has repeatedly denied sending arms to Yemeni rebels.<\/p>\n

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia has itself led an Arab coalition conducting air strikes against the Shia rebels and providing other assistance to local forces in support of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.<\/p>\n

The rebels have killed at least 110 civilians and soldiers in rocket fire and skirmishes along the Saudi frontier. They have also fired longer-range ballistic missiles over the border at Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

The Arab coalition, for its part, has faced repeated allegations of killing civilians. On Tuesday the United States blocked the transfer of precision-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Salman’s son, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 31, has had overall responsibility for the Yemen campaign as he holds the post of defence minister.<\/p>\n

The Yemen intervention has cost Saudi Arabia billions of dollars despite austerity at home to cope with fallen oil revenues.<\/p>\n

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