Group of Seven calls on Iran to stop supporting and delivering weapons to Houthi rebels

🔸The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven asked Iran to halt the arming and support of the Houthi rebels in Yemen.

🔸The request was raised on Monday, 30 Shahrivar, by the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States in a statement after their joint meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

🔸The statement said Iran’s actions in supporting the Houthis “indicate a dangerous pattern of escalation that comes with the risk of weakening international trade and creating instability in the world.”

🔸The statement added: “We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the unacceptable and continuing attacks by the Houthis in Yemen and against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”

🔸The foreign ministers of the G7 have asked the Houthis to “immediately end all military actions, threats, and attacks against non-civilian shipping, and return to the political process in good faith.”

🔸While the group, under Iranian support, has intensified its war against Saudi Arabia, the United States’ ally, Donald Trump reported on 29 Shahrivar in an interview with Fox News that the United States “is in ongoing contact with the Houthis, and they have agreed not to go to war with the U.S.”

🔸However, in recent days, the U.S. State Department, following an explosion at the airport in Riyadh, warned that there is a possibility that hostility and clashes between Saudi Arabia and the Shiite Houthis supported by the Islamic Republic could “quickly escalate.”

🔸The Yemeni Houthis, which oppose the central government, are considered one of the proxy groups of the Islamic Republic. At the same time, the Islamic Republic insists that this group acts independently of Tehran.

🔸In recent days, they have also intensified their war against Saudi Arabia, the United States’ ally, as they have advanced in areas around the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait.

🔸Read the full version of this report on the Radio Farda website.