Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaks during a news conference about the new political relations between Iran and Egypt after the newly elected Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi was sworn in, at the Iranian embassy in Cairo June 9, 2014. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's deputy foreign minister said Tehran will not let regional powers jeopardise its security interests in Yemen, Tasnim news agency reported, in the strongest acknowledgement yet of Iranian involvement in the Arabian peninsula.
Iran has denied accusations from Western and Arab states that it is arming Shi'ite Muslim Houthi rebels in Yemen. But it has regularly condemned a Saudi-led air campaign against the insurgents.
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