[ARABNEWS] Yemen’s Information Minister Muammar al-Iryani condemned the United Nations...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
on Wednesday over its report on war crimes in Yemen, in which he says the leader of the Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews...
militia was referred to as a "leader of the revolution."
The UN Security Council designated sanctions on Abdul Malik al-Houthi in April 2015 for engaging in acts that threatened the peace, security, and stability of Yemen.
Describing the report as "disastrous," al-Iryani said on his Twitter account that it was based on "a number of fabrications" aiming to harm the internationally recognized government and the member states of the Saudi-led Arab coalition fighting the militias.
The minister said the report did not mention all the "terror acts" carried out by the militia group on officials, government headquarters and military and security sites of the government.
The report ignored hundreds of rockets launched by the Houthi militia under Iranian pretexts targeting the Saudi capital Riyadh and Makkah and a number of other cities in the Kingdom, the minister said.
There was no mention of the killing of a number of civilians, in addition to the targeting of oil tankers in international waters, he added.
The Arab coalition also refuted the UN report on Yemen, saying it made a series of accusations against the alliance.
In a strongly worded statement, the coalition, which supports forces loyal to the internationally recognized government, rejected the claim that it did not provide information requested by the UN.
The coalition dismissed as "false" and "inaccurate" claims in the report that its forces were obstructing humanitarian access to civilians in the country.