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A leading member of Yemen's Houthi movement on Friday denied reports that Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Al-Quds Brigades, had arrived in Yemen to aid the Shiite group.
"There is no truth to these reports whatsoever," Houthi leader Mohamed al-Bakhiti told The Anadolu Agency without elaborating.
Western news outlets had "ed sources close to Soleimani as saying that he had set out for crisis-hit Yemen.
Several Arab states, all of them allies of Washington, have joined a Saudi-led military offensive that kicked off Wednesday with a string of airstrikes on Houthi positions in Yemen, including some in capital Sanaa.
Predominantly-Sunni Saudi Arabia said the strikes were in response to calls by Gulf-backed Yemeni President ABD Rabbuh Mansour Hadi for military intervention in Yemen to "save the people from the [Shiite] Houthi militias."
www.aa.com.tr/en - Sana
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