Iran supports “any effective role” of the United Nations towards ending the conflict in Yemen, its foreign minister said Monday after meeting the UN envoy to the war-torn country in Tehran. Martin Griffiths, the UN special envoy for Yemen, has been in Tehran since Sunday to meet with Iranian officials as part of “efforts to support a political solution” to the conflict in the impoverished Arab nation, according to a statement from his office. Iran has backed the Houthi rebels during the six-year-old war against Yemen’s internationally recognised government, supported since 2015 by a military c…
