US arms enabled Saudis to kill Yemenis , impose famine on them

Iranian Foreign Minister blamed the US for being complicit in Saudi war crimes against Yemeni nation in response to Washington' claim that Tehran is providing supply of ballistic missiles to Yemen's Ansarullah movement.
US Arms Enabled Saudis to Kill Yemenis , Impose Famine on Them
US Arms Enabled Saudis to Kill Yemenis , Impose Famine on Them

“While #Iran has been calling for ceasefire, aid and dialogue in #Yemen from day 1, US has sold weapons enabling its allies to kill civilians and impose famine. No amount of alternative facts or alternative evidence covers up US complicity in war crimes. ” Zarif said in a post on his official Twitter account on Friday.

The Iranian foreign minister’s post came after US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley claimed Thursday that a missile the Yemeni army had fired at Saudi Arabia last month was supplied by Tehran.

In a statement released on Thursday, Iran’s UN mission categorically dismissed Haley’s claim as “unfounded” and said, “This purported evidence … is as much fabricated as the one presented on some other occasions earlier.”

The Iranian Ambassador to the UN, Gholam Ali Khoshroo, also rejected his American counterpart’s claims and said the “show” Haley put up earlier in the day was merely meant to cover up Washington’s own supply lethal weapons to the Saudi regime, which have resulted in the deaths of Yemeni women and children.

“Iran wants peace, dialog and an immediate ceasefire and a halt to bombardments” against Yemen, said the senior diplomat, emphasizing that the US “must, above all, end its arms sales to Saudi Arabia.”

On November 4, a missile fired from Yemen targeted the King Khalid International Airport near Riyadh, reaching the Saudi capital for the first time.

The Ansarullah movement, which has been fighting back a Saudi aggression, said it had fired the missile but the Riyadh regime was quick to point the finger at Iran.

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Tehran rejected the allegations as “provocative and baseless,” saying the Yemenis had shown an “independent” reaction to the Saudi bombing campaign on their country.

The Saudi-led military coalition has been continuously pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to crush the popular Ansarullah movement and reinstate the former fugitive president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Saudi regime. Over 13,000 Yemenis, mostly civilians, including women and children, have been killed in the Saudi-led aggression.

The situation in Yemen is going from bad to worse with senior UN officials warning that the country is facing the world’s largest famine in decades. The World Food Program says of a population of 26 million, some 17 million Yemenis do not know where their next meal is coming from and seven million are totally dependent on food aid.