Velayati Criticizes UN Silence over Saudi Crimes in Yemen

Local Editor

An adviser to Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution His Eminence Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei lashed out at the United Nations [UN] on Sunday over its inaction on the Saudi-led aggression against Yemenis.

 

In the opening ceremony of the 8th Islamic Radios & TVs Union [IRTVU] summit, Ali Akbar Velayati said that the UN has kept silent while Saudi Arabia has been bombarding an innocent nation for the last four months.

Attended by 220 TV and radio channels from 35 countries, the eighth General Assembly of IRTVU started work on Sunday in the Iranian capital of Tehran.

 

"Even some of our friends in the international arena have remained silent, whether out of their naivety or in the hope of certain promises," Velayati lamented.

He stressed that the Saudi regime’s atrocities in Yemen have never been committed by anyone before.

On March 26, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies backed by the United States began to launch deadly airstrikes in Yemen in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.

More than 4,000 people, including women and children, have been killed and 22,110 injured since the start of the aggression, the UN’s World Health Organization [WHO] said, citing figures from Yemeni health care facilities.

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