Jeddah: The deputy foreign minister of Iran, whose country is accused of siding with rebels in Yemen, said Tuesday that Tehran will support the outcome of this week`s UN peace talks.
"We back the Yemeni-Yemeni dialogue in Geneva... and we will support the outcome of the dialogue", Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told reporters at an extraordinary meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah.
Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia has accused its regional rival Shiite-majority Iran of arming Yemen`s Huthi rebels, which Tehran has dismissed as "utter lies".
The Shiite Huthis, who have for months been fighting President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi`s supporters, arrived on Tuesday in Geneva for the United Nations-sponsored talks, to which Hadi has sent representatives.
At the OIC meeting also called to discuss Yemen`s war, which has killed more than 2,500 people, Amir-Abdollahian left the conference hall as soon as Hadi began speaking, a witness said.