Raad Karimli, Saudi Arabia's deputy foreign minister for public diplomacy, rejected the Wall Street Journal's report on Ansarullah's (Houthis) request for $51 billion from Saudi Arabia and the demand to recognize this group as the legitimate rulers of the conflict in Yemen. He described this report as "pure fiction".

Raad Karimli, Saudi Arabia's deputy foreign minister for public diplomacy, rejected the Wall Street Journal's report on Ansarullah's (Houthis) request for $51 billion from Saudi Arabia and the demand to recognize this group as the legitimate rulers of the conflict in Yemen. He described this report as "pure fiction".