Yemen's President Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi addresses a news conference at a Saudi center for the co-ordination of humanitarian resistance for Yemen in Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia July 28, 2015. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser
DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's former president, a powerful ally of Houthi forces in a four-month-old civil war, said he wanted his exiled successor tried for treason for enlisting Saudi-led attacks against the Iranian-allied militia.
In remarks published on Monday by the Huffington Post website, Ali Abdullah Saleh said the air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition supporting his successor, President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi were a mistake because the kingdom, formerly an ally of Yemen, is now regarded by Yemenis as an aggressor.
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