MARIB, Yemen, — Yemeni Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Muammar Al-Eryani confirmed that the practices of the Iranian-backed terrorist Houthi militia are part of policies of impoverishment and deliberate starvation of the rights of citizens in their controlled areas.

In a statement to the state-run Yemeni News Agency (Saba), Al-Eryani said that the leader of the Houthi militia directed his militia to spend hundreds of millions of riyals exclusively for his followers in Saada governorate.

While millions of citizens in the usurped capital and the rest of the areas under his control are dying of poverty and starvation, the world's biggest humanitarian tragedy according to UN reports.

Al-Eryani stated out that the terrorist Houthi militia directed the billions plundered from the state treasury, revenues, sustenance and savings of citizens in favor of unjustified war, escalating it against Yemenis, financing its terrorist activities and implementing Iran's subversive policies to harm the security and stability of the region and threaten international interests. — SPA