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Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused the United States of trying to divert attention from its own responsibility for the deadly war in Yemen with claims of Iranian weapons shipments and missile attacks against the Saudis.
He said that the missile have been in Yemen since the USSR era when North and South bought those weapons.
Mohammad Javad Zarif was responding to claims by US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that a missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi revolutionaries at Riyadh airport on November 4 was made in Iran.
'No amount of alternative facts or alternative evidence covers up US complicity in war,' Zarif said.
'While Iran has been calling for ceasefire, aid and dialogue in Yemen from day one, the US has sold weapons enabling its allies to kill civilians and impose famine.'
Saudi Arabia, which has led a military intervention in Yemen with US backing since March 2015, demanded immediate action against Iran over the alleged missile deliveries.
Documents reveal that the Saudis last year where the second country that bought more weapons in the world, mainly from the USA, which means an increase of 212 percent.
The Iranian FM mentioned that the accusation made by USA against Iran have as an objective to cover war crimes committed by the Saudis in Yemen.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
