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‘Iran team to probe killing in Yemen’

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‘Iran team to probe killing in Yemen’

Iran will soon dispatch a delegation to Yemen to investigate the assassination of an Iranian diplomat in the Arab country.

On Wednesday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Iranian Expatriates Affairs Hassan Qashqavi underlined the responsibility of the Yemeni government to guarantee the security of foreign diplomats.

“Under international conventions, it is the mandate of host governments to protect diplomats; and the Yemeni government bears responsibility in this regard,” Qashqavi said, referring to the recent killing of Iranian diplomat Abolqasem Asadi in Yemen.

On January 18, Asadi, the commercial attaché at the Iranian embassy in Sana’a, was gunned down by members of a terrorist group outside the Iranian ambassador’s residence in the Yemeni capital.

Following the incident, Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Yemeni chargé d’affaires to protest the fatal shooting.

Yemen’s Foreign Ministry says the country would welcome an Iranian delegation to Sana’a and is ready to cooperate with Tehran in investigating the attack.

Also commenting on the fate of an Iranian diplomat abducted in Yemen last year, Qashqavi said an Iranian delegation is currently in Yemen to follow up on the issue.

On July 21, 2013, Iranian diplomat Nour Ahmad Nikbakht was on his way to work from his home in the diplomatic quarter of Sana’a, when unidentified gunmen blocked the road, forced him out of his vehicle and abducted him.

Yemen’s Foreign Ministry announced on August 14 that it had no clues as to Nikbakht’s whereabouts.

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