Iran’s foreign minister discusses ending war in Yemen with UN envoy

Mohammad Javad Zarif met with Martin Griffiths in Tehran on Monday as the US renews a push to end Yemen's war
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Martin Griffiths (L), the UN special envoy for Yemen, met in Tehran on Feb. 8 with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R). In left photo, Griffiths arrives at Sanaa international airport in Yemen on Feb. 11, 2019. At right, Zarif appears at a news conference in Baghdad on July 19, 2020. - MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images (L) / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images (R)
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif sat down with United Nations’ lead envoy for the crisis in Yemen, Martin Griffiths, in Tehran on Monday to discuss how to bring about an end to the conflict.

The two “exchanged views on Yemen and how to make progress towards a resumption of the political process,” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.

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