Abdollahian: Iran will not Allow Yemen Blockade
Local Editor
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said on Tuesday that Iran will press ahead with its efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to Yemen and will not allow the country to remain under siege like the Gaza Strip in Occupied Palestine.
Abdollahian, the deputy foreign minister for Arab and African Affairs, said that Iran will not allow a Saudi blockade of Yemen. The seized Gaza Strip has been under a crippling "Israeli" siege since 2007.
He also lashed out at Saudi Arabia for waging a war against the Muslim country of Yemen.
Stressing that Iran strongly supports the Yemeni nation, Abdollahian also threw the Islamic Republic’s weight behind an intra-Yemeni dialog aimed at solving the crisis in Yemen.
Abdollahian further said that evidence at hand shows that terrorists in Syria, Iraq and Yemen have links to certain intelligence services in the region.
Saudi Arabia is continuing its brutal airstrikes against Yemen despite the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the crisis-hit country.
Saudi Arabia launched its military aggression against Yemen March 26 - without a United Nations mandate - in a bid to undermine Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and to restore power to the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Saudis.
Saudi Arabia has also been blocking aid to Yemen.
It has prevented two Iranian civilian planes recently last month [April] from delivering medical aid and foodstuff to the Yemeni people.
The International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC] and the medical charity group, Médecins Sans Frontières [MSF] expressed on Monday "extreme" concern about the Saudi airstrikes on Yemen’s lifelines and its obstruction of aid deliveries to the impoverished nation.
Also, the UN has called for a "safe and reliable" access to Yemen’s Sana’a International Airport for the delivery of aid.
