Washington imposes sanctions on Hassan Irloo
English - Wednesday 09 December 2020 الساعة 10:19 am
Washington, NewsYemen:
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced, Tuesday, that Washington has imposed terrorism-related sanctions on an Iranian individual and entity.
Pompeo said, in a tweet on his Twitter account, that those targeted for sanctions are: the Iranian ambassador to the Houthi movement, Hassan Irloo, and Al-Mustafa International University, according to Reuters.
The minister noted that the appointment of Hassan Irloo as Iran's ambassador to Yemen indicates Tehran's intention to increase support for the Houthis and complicates efforts to settle the conflict.
For its part, the US Treasury Department said that Iranian support for the Houthi militia continues to destabilize Yemen.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman announced in a statement on October 17, 2020, that Hassan Irloo arrived in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, as a new Iranian ambassador, extraordinary and full-fledged, in Yemen.
A US official, who declined to be identified, told NewsYemen that the alleged Iranian ambassador to Yemen, Hassan Irloo, is a prominent leader in the Revolutionary Guard, who arrived from Iran to the capital, Muscat, and was then smuggled into Yemen with the help of Omani intelligence.
He pointed out that Irloo arrived in the capital, Sana'a, after (perhaps) Shahla’i was killed, which he considered an alternative Iranian leader, but this time with an "official capacity", as an "Iranian ambassador."
