DOHA, September 10. /TASS/. The defense of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait requires a more efficient international partnership aimed at protecting one of the world’s most important waterways, President of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council Rashad Al-Alimi said.
"We must not allow the Hormuz crisis to repeat itself in the Bab el-Mandeb," the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper quoted him as saying. "Yemen will not become a platform for geopolitical blackmail in the interests of Iran."
Al-Alimi claimed that Tehran was using the military campaign by the rebel Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement to shift the burden of the conflict to neighboring countries.
"This poses a threat to fuel and food supplies," he said.
Asharq Al-Awsat reported that the Yemeni foreign ministry has sent a letter to the UN Security Council regarding the military campaign by the Houthis, supported by Iran, and its potential consequences for international shipping and trade in the Red Sea.
