Guarded Approval for US New Stand on Yemen

A senior Iranian diplomat said on Saturday a new US stand on the Yemen war can be a “step toward correcting past mistakes,” after US President Joe Biden said this week Washington was ending its support for a Saudi Arabia-led military campaign in Yemen.
“Stopping support ... for the Saudi coalition, if not a political maneuver, could be a step toward correcting past mistakes,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said, ISNA reported.
But he said the measure is not enough and the all-out blockade on the impoverished country must also be lifted to improve humanitarian situation and ease people’s suffering. 
Biden said on Thursday that the more than six-year war “has to end.” He also named veteran US diplomat Timothy Lenderking as the US special envoy for Yemen in a bid to step up American diplomacy to try to end the war.