Iran Says Will Support Results of U.N. Yemen Talks

The deputy foreign minister of Iran, whose country is accused of siding with rebels in Yemen, said Tuesday that Tehran will support the outcome of this week's U.N. peace talks.

"We back the Yemeni-Yemeni dialogue in Geneva... and we will support the outcome of the dialogue", Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told reporters at an extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah.

Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia has accused its regional rival Shiite-majority Iran of arming Yemen's Huthi rebels, which Tehran has dismissed as "utter lies."

The Shiite Huthis, who have for months been fighting President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi's supporters, arrived on Tuesday in Geneva for the United Nations-sponsored talks, to which Hadi has sent representatives.

At the OIC meeting also called to discuss Yemen's war, which has killed more than 2,500 people, Amir-Abdollahian left the conference hall as soon as Hadi began speaking, a witness said.