The Iranian foreign ministry on Tuesday rejected Arab media reports that Tehran’s embassy in Sana’a has been closed, stressing that the mission continues operation.

The Iranian foreign ministry on Tuesday rejected Arab media reports that Tehran's embassy in Sana'a has been closed, stressing that the mission continues operation.

"The Iranian embassy in Sana'a continues operation as usual, while Iranian Ambassador to Yemen Sayyed Hussein Niknam returned to the country yesterday to use his annual leave," Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham told Fars News Agency.

She also dismissed certain Arab media reports claiming that Iran's embassy in Sana'a is acting as an operations room to command the resistance Yemeni groups.

"Such fake news are released to divert and weaken the Yemeni people and groups' role in their 6-month-long under-siege resistance and fighting against the foreign aggressors, terrorists and Takfiri groups inside Yemen and they are baseless," she said.

Her remarks came after Yemen’s fugitive Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin claimed on Sunday that the Iranian embassy in Yemen’s capital Sanaa is offering financial, strategic, and military advisory support to the Houthis in country.

Speaking to Saudi al-Akhbaria news channel, Yassin, who is in Saudi Arabia, claimed that he would announce severance of Yemen's diplomatic ties with Iran and closure of the Iranian embassy in Sanaa in the next few hours after consulting with fugitive president Abed-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

Yassin and President Hadi fled Yemen several months ago and have no executive power in Yemen.