A senior Houthi official posted a Facebook message on Wednesday telling Iranian officials to stay out of Yemen's conflict, a day after an Iranian general said Tehran could send military advisers to help Houthi forces fighting a Gulf Arab coalition.

"Officials in the Islamic Republic of Iran must be silent and leave aside the exploitation of the Yemen file," the official, Yousef Al Feshi, a member of the Houthis' Revolutionary Committee, said in the posting.

Houthis, drawn from the Zaidi Shi'ite Muslim sect, normally see Shi'ite Iran as a friendly power in their year-old conflict with the Saudi-led coalition.-Reuters