Iran signs oil, electricity agreements with de facto Yemeni government

  11 March 2015    Read: 857
Iran signs oil, electricity agreements with de facto Yemeni government
Iran and the Yemeni government backed by Shiite Houthi rebels- Ansarullah- have signed several agreements on economic cooperation.
The spokesman for the Houthi militants, Mohammad Abdulsalam said agreements are within the mutual economic cooperation framework to provide Yemen with its staple demands, Iran `s Fars news agency reported March 11, citing Almassae Press newspaper.

The agreements cover supplying Yemen with electricity and oil, the spokesman said.

Plans are to boost mutual economic and trade relations, Abdulsalam said, adding Yemen will use Iran `s experiences in various fields.

Earlier in March, a governmental delegation from Yemen headed by Saleh al-Samad, head of Ansarullah movement`s political council, who was accompanied by officials from different Yemeni ministries as well as economic experts, visited Tehran and discussed mutual cooperation with senior Iranian officials.

Iran has sent two aid cargo shipments to Yemen after the Ansarullah group took control of the government and the capital city of Sanaa .

The first Iranian flight landed in Sanaa on March 1, a day after officials from the Shia-controlled city signed an aviation agreement with Tehran .

The Ansarullah group, whose power base is in the main Shiite northern highlands, overran Sanaa unopposed last September.

Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi managed to escape Sanaa and house arrest at the hands of the rebels on Feb. 21. Hadi has established a base in the southern city of Aden, from where he says he is still the country`s rightful ruler.

Last December, Deputy Commander of Iran `s IRGC, Hussein Salami said the balance of power in the region is changed in Iran `s favor.

Salami said that the Yemeni Ansarullah group moves in accordance with the Islamic Revolution (1979) within Iran `s geopolitical space. In his similar statements, Iran `s former foreign minister, Ali Akbar Velayati said mid-December that the Islamic Republic`s current influence spreads from Yemen to Lebanon.

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