worldUpdated: Sep 30, 2019 08:48 ISTIran’s foreign minister has urged arch-rival Saudi Arabia to accept that “security cannot be bought”, saying an end to the war in Yemen would quell regional tensions. Saudi Arabia intervened in Yemen’s war in 2015 to prop up the government after the Huthi insurgents ousted it from the capital Sanaa the previous year. Zarif told IRNA that Riyadh was stirring tensions in order to “open (the way) for foreigners to enter the region”. Zarif said the solution “is absolutely clear and that is an end to the Yemen war”. Tens of thousands of people, most of them civilians, have been killed since Saudi Arabia and its allies intervened in March 2015.

Source: Hindustan Times September 29, 2019 11:59 UTC