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Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abollahian, held talks with chief Houthi negotiator, Mohammed Abdul-Salam, in the Omani capital, Muscat, Anadolu Agency reports.
Talks between the two sides covered the latest developments in war-torn Yemen, Iran’s state news agency, IRNA, reported.
The Houthi-run Al-Masirah television said the meeting was held at the Iranian Embassy in Muscat late Tuesday. It, however, did not provide any details about the content of the talks.
Iran is a main backer of Yemen’s Houthi group, which over-ran much of Yemen, including the capital, Sana’a, in 2014.
Amir-Abollahian is currently visiting Oman as part of a Gulf tour that already took him to Qatar, where he held talks with Qatari officials.
Yemen has begun to witness a state of de-escalation in recent months after nine years of fighting amid efforts by the UN to settle the conflict.
This comes amid a thaw in relations between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia, a main backer of the Yemeni government against Houthi rebels.
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