The military intervention of Saudi Arabia and its allies against Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen is applauded by some and severely criticized by others in the Arab-Muslim world. The European Union, she is concerned about the "risk of serious regional consequences."
The operation "decisive Storm" began in the Wednesday and Thursday night. Saudi Arabia, a Sunni, mobilized 150,000 soldiers.
The Secretary General of the Arab League Nabil al-Arabi has made this Thursday its total support for this intervention which had been claimed by the Yemeni president. "This military operation took place after the failure of all attempts to stop the coup Houthi. After their insistence to take ever more intense action against the constitutional legitimacy and the national will of Yemenis. "
Iraq, the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah backed by Tehran, and Iran accused of supporting Shiite rebels in Yemen condemned the Saudi intervention.
"The military action, especially from abroad against the territorial integrity of Yemen and its people will not work if not more death and bloodshed," responded the Iranian Minister of Affairs Foreign Mohammad Javad Zarif.
In Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, controlled by the Houthis Shiites, thousands of supporters of the militia demonstrated Thursday against the Saudi strikes.
However in Taiz in the south of the country, demonstrators supported this military intervention.
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