Iranian Diplomat: No Military Winner in Yemen
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An Iranian deputy foreign minister lashed out at Saudi Arabia for ignoring diplomacy by dragging out a war on Yemeni people, saying the battle in Yemen in not going to have any military winner.
Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian slammed the continuous Saudi strikes on Yemen during the Hajj season as a sign of “imprudence and disregard for the constructive diplomacy and peace.”
He said the UN efforts to halt the war and bloodshed in Yemen have failed because of Saudi Arabia’s lack of cooperation and the “questionable silence of certain Arab and Western countries.”
Amir Abdollahian noted that Iran has offered Saudi Arabia an appropriate political way out of the crisis in Yemen, reiterating that Tehran supports national dialogues among all Yemeni parties.
His comments came after Saudi Arabia’s warplanes, in a fresh air strike on Friday, bombed a house in the southwestern Yemeni province of Taiz, killing 11 people.
Meanwhile, a large crowd of Yemeni people held demonstrations in capital Sana’a on Friday to protest against Saudi Arabia’s decision to bar thousands of Yemeni pilgrims from taking the Hajj pilgrimage this year.
Saudi Arabia began a military campaign against Yemen on March 26 – without a UN mandate – in an attempt to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and to restore power to fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
More than 4500 people, many of them children and women, have been killed in the Saudi-led aggression against the Arab country so far.