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The Iranian foreign ministry strongly rejected US officials' allegations that Tehran was involved in the Saturday drone attacks against the Saudi oil installations.
"Yemen has been entangled in war for 5 years and Iran has naturally clearly announced that it supports the Yemeni people and their rights, but blaming Iran for such measures is in line with (the American officials' policy of) maximum lie," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi told reporters in a press conference in Tehran on Monday, commenting on the US officials' claims that the attack on the Saudi oil facilities had been carried out with Iran's assistance.
"Such remarks are essentially baseless and untrue," he added.
His remarks came after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed the Saturday drone attacks by the Yemeni army against Saudi Arabia's oil installations on Iran claiming on Twitter that there was “no evidence the attacks came from Yemen”.
After his comments, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blasted Pompeo for allegations against Tehran, saying that Washington which had failed in pressures against Iran was now resorting to lies and deceits.
"Having failed at max pressure, Pompeo's turning to max deceit," Zarif wrote on his twitter page on Sunday.
"The US and its clients are stuck in Yemen because of illusion that weapon superiority will lead to military victory," Zarif added.
He noted that blaming Iran won't end disaster, saying that the US and the Saudi-led coalition should accept Iran's "April 15 proposal to end war and begin talks" to resolve the crisis in Yemen politically.
Mousavi had also on Sunday blasted Pompeo for his big lies against Tehran, and categorically rejected his allegations about Iran's involvement in Yemeni attacks on Saudi Arabia.
Mousavi said that the Yemen war has been kept alive for five years by the Saudi-led coalition's aggressions against the poor Arab country and the Yemenis have only displayed resistance.
"Such allegations and blind and fruitless remarks are meaningless and not understood in diplomatic framework," he added.
Mousavi noted that such hostile remarks by the US officials sound like the plots of the intelligence agencies and secret services to distort the face of a country in a bid to lay the groundwork for future moves.
"The Americans have opted for a policy named maximum pressure (against Iran), but it has apparently tilted towards maximum lies for their failures," he said.
He further mentioned stop of the Saudi-led coalition's attacks and aggression, cut off of the western states' political and arms assistance to the aggressors and launch of efforts to find a political solution as the only way to establish calm and tranquility in the region and end the fruitless crisis in Yemen.
Yemen’s Ansarullah movement announced on Saturday that its drones had successfully attacked two oil plants in the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, stressing that the attacks were a firm response to Riyadh’s relentless bombardment of Yemen.
The recent operation came just weeks after Yemeni forces conducted attacks on an oil field affiliated to Saudi Aramco in the East of the kingdom in retaliation for Riyadh’s war on their country. Oil facilities at Shaybah, which has the largest strategic oil reserve in Saudi Arabia near the UAE border and operated by state-oil company Saudi Aramco, were targeted by 10 Yemeni drones.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
