Iranian-Houthi European meeting in Tehran .. What outputs?

Jazeera Net-Tehran

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran hosted a tripartite meeting on Saturday with a delegation from Yemen's Houthi group and ambassadors from Britain, France, Germany and Italy, as well as foreign ministry representatives, to discuss ways to resolve the Yemeni crisis.

The British ambassador to Tehran, Rab McAir, was the first to unveil the meeting. He praised the role of the Iranian Foreign Ministry in hosting the meeting and wrote in his twitter tweet that "it is very important to discuss the political process and the humanitarian crisis in Yemen."

For its part, the Foreign Ministry announced in a statement that it hosted a meeting within the framework of the talks to resolve the Yemeni political crisis in the presence of an Iranian delegation headed by Ali Asghar Khaji, assistant minister for political affairs, a delegation of Yemeni Ansar Allah group (Houthis) headed by its spokesman Mohammed Abdul Salam, ambassadors and heads of European missions Four: Britain, France, Germany and Italy.

According to the Tehran statement, the delegates who attended the meeting presented the vision of their governments regarding the developments in Yemen, especially the political, field and humanitarian situations, and expressed regret for the continuation of the crisis which left tens of thousands of victims, as well as the destruction of Yemeni infrastructure.

The meeting stressed the need to stop the war mill quickly in Yemen, considering that a political solution is the final option of the crisis, stressing the speedy dispatch of humanitarian aid and the implementation of the Stockholm Agreement fully and the implementation of the commitments of both sides, in preparation for a political solution to the crisis there.

The connotations of the meeting
For his part, the former Iranian diplomat Sayed Amir Mousavi that the tripartite meeting "of high importance to end the crisis in Yemen," noting that the European presence demonstrates the success of the movement of Ansar Allah of Yemen on the political and military.

Moussaoui told Al Jazeera Net that the European side - represented by the ambassadors of Britain, France, Germany and Italy - began to understand the reality of what is going on in Yemen and seeks to save Saudi Arabia from the quagmire involved, especially after the disintegration of the Saudi-UAE alliance, he said.

He attributed the reason to the performance of the Houthi group in defending the Yemeni people, and the remarkable military development recorded by targeting a group of targets on Saudi territory.

Deterioration of trade
The former Iranian diplomat said that the European side has become threatened by the military development of the Houthis and the possibility of unrest in Bab al-Mandab, which could damage the world trade, especially with regard to the flow of oil to Western countries.

"If the UAE can export its oil from outside the Strait of Hormuz, it will not be able to export it from outside the Bab al-Mandab," Mousavi said, stressing that any targeting of oil tankers in Bab al-Mandab would worsen the situation, making the West move to calm the situation in a way that preserves the face of Saudi Arabia.

He expected the Tehran meeting to pave the ground for other meetings to end the Yemeni crisis may include Saudi Arabia in the next stage, noting that he does not rule out that a Saudi delegation to visit the capital again to put points on the letter after the recent visit by the Riyadh delegation to Iran.

It took days
On the results of the Houthi delegation's visit to Tehran, Moussaoui said that it took several days during which the Yemeni delegation met a number of Iranian officials and announced only a few meetings. The visit also culminated in the appointment of Ibrahim al-Dailami as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Yemen to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

"A republican decision by the Supreme Political Council to appoint Ibrahim al-Dailami as extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to Iran," Houthi spokesman Mohammad Abdul Salam said in a tweet from Tehran. And the Government of Salvation. "

Moussaoui concluded by saying that Riyadh reached the conclusion that there is no point in the continuation of the war on Yemen, and can no longer resolve it in its favor due to the Yemeni steadfastness and military development of the Houthis, revealing Western pressure exerted on Riyadh to end its war on a defenseless people and stop killing more innocent people.

Convinced of the solution
For his part, the Secretary-General of the party "Sabz" Hussein Kanaani Moghaddam that the meeting of the Houthi delegation with Iranian delegations and European diplomats in Tehran, an indication of the failure of what he called "the Western Arab-Hebrew blockade of Yemen."

Speaking to Al Jazeera Net, Kanaani said that his country seeks to convey the voice of the Yemeni people to the European side out of its conviction that there is no solution but the political option of the Yemeni crisis, expressing regret for what Saudi Arabia believed at the beginning of its war on Yemen the feasibility of iron fist.

The Iranian politician said that what is known as the storm of firmness collided with the steadfastness of the Yemeni people and the military development of the Houthis, saying that the upper hand in the ongoing conflict between the Saudi-UAE alliance backed by mercenaries brought them from some Arab countries and Yemen has become the share of the Houthis.

He said that the Tehran meeting was held after receiving recent messages from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other parties involved in the war on Yemen on the need to end the crisis there, as well as an approach between the war on Yemen with the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006 and how the aggressor pleaded with other parties to save him from the quagmire. Saying.

Observers in Iran say that given the rift in relations between the two poles of the "Storm" coalition, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Tehran will do more to achieve its initiative to launch a ceasefire through a sincere Yemeni dialogue.