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Iran’s UN Envoy Urges Saudi Arabia to End Yemen War

Iran’s UN Envoy Urges Saudi Arabia to End Yemen War
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Iran's ambassador to the UN rejected baseless Saudi allegations of Tehran sending missiles to Yemen, urging the regime in Riyadh to stop "warmongering" and engage, instead, in dialog with its neighbor.

Iran’s UN Envoy Urges Saudi Arabia to End Yemen War

Gholamali Khoshrou said on Wednesday that the three-year Saudi war on Yemen has no legitimacy, adding that the bombardment campaign against the Arab state has achieved nothing but massacre, hunger, diseases and the destruction of its infrastructure.

Khoshrou made the remarks in response to a letter submitted by his Saudi counterpart, Abdullah al-Muallami, to the Security Council demanding that Iran be held accountable for allegedly supplying Yemen's Ansarullah revolutionaries with ballistic missiles.

He went on to say, "It is not the first time Saudi Arabia enters into correspondence against Iran in order to cover up its defeats in Yemen, and the international community is well aware of this fact."

"With adventurism and inexperience, the Saudis have helped inflict cholera on millions of Yemeni people and targeted children and civilians in the course of their bombardments," Khoshrou said. 

The Iranian official added that the Saudi regime should "abandon adventurism and warmongering and engage in constructive political dialog with Yemen, which is its neighbor, while respecting the people's rights."

Iran basically believes in no other solution than a political one to the conflict in Yemen, he said.

The Islamic Republic, he said, wants Saudi Arabia to immediately join a peace process in Yemen and stop actions that have failed to bring peace to Yemen, but rather helped develop al-Qaeda and Daesh [the Arabic acronym for ‘ISIS/ISIL'] terror groups there.

Khoshrou also expressed dismay at the sale of US weapons to Saudi Arabia, calling on the Muslim world and the international community to pressure Saudi Arabia to stop killings in Yemen.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

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