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Published 21:52 IST, September 16th 2019

Iran says ready to work for Yemen peace with UN and other countries

Iran's spokesperson Ali Rabiei stated on September 16 that his country is ready to work in accordance with the United Nations and other countries for peace

Reported by: Ruchit Rastogi
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Iranian spokesperson Ali Rabiei stated on September 16 that his country is ready to work in accordance with the United Nations and other countries to work towards a stable environment in Yemen and other regions. This comes after recent attacks on Oil sites in Saudi Arabia.

The "Houthi" attack

Yemen's Houthi revolutionaries took responsibility regarding assaults on two Saudi Aramco oil processing plants in Saudi Arabia on September 14. A local news organization revealed that the Houthi renegades deployed 10 drones against the plants in Abqaiq and Khurais. The assaults occurred right off the bat on Saturday and brought about a monstrous flame which was later smothered by the Saudi experts. It is the world's biggest oil handling office in Saudi Arabia. Nobody quickly asserted obligation regarding the assaults in Buqyaq and the Khurais oil field, however, Yemen's Houthi revolts recently propelled drone strikes somewhere within the kingdom.

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United Nations agents said the Houthis' new UAV-X drone, found as of late during the Saudi-drove alliance's war in Yemen, likely has a scope of as much as 1,500 kilometers (930 miles). That puts the most distant compasses of both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in range. 

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A global human rights violation

Yemen, one of the Arab world's poorest countries, has been destroyed because of an ongoing civil war. The conflict has its underlying foundations in the situation of a political change expected to carry dependability to Yemen following an Arab uprising that constrained its long-lasting president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to hand over the office he held to Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi in the year 2011.  As president, Hadi attempted to manage an assortment of issues, including assaults by jihadists, a dissident development in the south, the proceeding with the dedication of security workforce to Saleh, just as defilement, joblessness, and nourishment issues.

Read: Pakistan's Human Rights Violation Exposed By Baloch Activists

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In reality, Yemen is a part of one of the worst global human rights violations in the modern world. The UN has reported that more than 5000 innocent civilians have been murdered since 2015. The civil war has rendered more than 2 million people homeless including all those who have fled their homes since 2018.

Read: Yemen: Saudi-led Airstrikes Kill At Least 100 In Rebel-run Prison

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20:35 IST, September 16th 2019