Yemeni Information Minister: Houthi Allegiance to Khamenei Reveals They Represent No Yemeni Project
Yemen Monitor/ Newsroom:
The Yemeni Minister of Information and Culture, Moammar al-Eryani, said on Monday that the Houthi group’s announcement of its allegiance to Mojtaba Khamenei as the leader of Iran clearly reveals its true nature, stressing that the group does not represent any local Yemeni project, but is rather an armed wing that owes full loyalty to the Iranian regime and moves within its expansionist agenda in the region.
Al-Eryani added in a post on the X platform that this pledge of allegiance has brought down all narratives that tried to portray the Houthis as a local force or a Yemeni political actor, noting that the group operates within the system of militias affiliated with Iran and executes the directives of the Iranian leadership as part of a trans-border regional project.
He emphasized that what is happening in Yemen is not merely a coup against the state, but a direct extension of an Iranian project aimed at imposing influence, undermining national states, and threatening regional security and international interests.
Al-Eryani’s statements come after the leader of the Houthi group, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, announced his congratulations to the Iranian people and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps on the occasion of the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei as the new leader of the country, succeeding his father Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a US-Israeli strike on February 28th.
Al-Houthi said in a statement that the selection of Khamenei “strengthens the pillars of the Islamic Revolution and the regime in Iran,” expressing his group’s solidarity with Iran in the face of what he described as “US and Israeli aggression,” describing its goal as “enabling Greater Israel” and “changing the Middle East.”
