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| Yemeni President Accuses Iran of Backing Armed Separatists |
| 2012-10-06 |
| [An Nahar] President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi has accused Iran of backing a faction of Yemen's southern separatist movement seeking to secede by force of arms, a newspaper reported on Friday. "In the south, there are two movements: a peaceful one and another, which is not," the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat quoted him as saying. "The latter resorts to the use of weapons, receives Iranian assistance and works for secession" of south Yemen, which was a separate state until 1990, Hadi charged. Sunni-majority Yemen and Shiite-dominated Iran have often regarded each other with mutual suspicion. Sanaa suspects Tehran of supporting rebels of the Shiite Zaidi sect in north Yemen. "I'm president of Yemen and I'm from the south, just like Prime Minister Mohammed Basindawa who is also a southerner. We advocate national and global dialogue to bring Yemen out of its current situation, which is incompatible with 21st century norms," Hadi added. A national dialogue conference proposed by the government is due to begin in November as part of Yemen's transition process from the rule of former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , ousted in February after a popular uprising. |
| Posted by:Fred |