The former President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered Commander of the Air Forces Mohammad Saleh Al-Ahmar and Chairman of the Yemeni Economic Corporation Hafez Meyad to refuse decrees of President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi, Well-informed sources told Al-Ahali Newspaper.
The sources said that Saleh ordered Meyad and Al-Ahamar to rebel in attempt to hamper any potential decree to dismiss his son Ahemed who leads the Republican Guard.
Meyad had refused his dismissal and appointment of a new chairman of YEC, and bring in armed men who occupied YEC several times and prevented the newly-appointed chairman from entering the corporation.
The sources affirmed that Al-Ahmar's health badly deteriorates, he was not planning to rebel against Hadi, and that Saleh put pressures against him to rebel.
Rejection of Hadi's decrees had led to the closure of Sana'a International Airport after armed men affiliated to Al-Ahmar impose a siege against the airport and threatened to drop any civil plane.
Meanwhile, the newspaper said that the US Ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein met on Monday with Saleh and his nephew, Tariq Mohammad Abdullah Saleh, to put pressure on them to accept the decrees issued by Saleh last Friday.
The sources told Al-Ahali that Saleh and his nephew affirmed their acceptances of the dismissal decrees. Tareq was dismissed as the commander of the Special forces and appointed as the commander of the Bridge 37th.
Ambassadors of the five Permanent Members of the Security Council, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and Ambassador of the European Union expressed on Saturday their support to the decrees taken by Yemen President Abdu-Rabou Mansour Hadi of dismissing military commanders and the appointment of new ambassadors.