Local Editor

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani called French President, Francois Holland, on Thursday to call on European countries for the condemnation of the massacre of Yemeni people.

Rouhani said during the phone talk on Thursday that, "The airstrikes of a neighboring country on the people of Yemen is unacceptable and I hope that massacre of the Yemeni nation will be condemned by France and the European Union [EU]".

A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out airstrikes against Yemen since March. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.

Based on UN figures, over 3,261 people have been killed, 1,670 of whom were civilians in the Saudi onslaught.

Saudi Arabia began its US-led military aggression against Yemen on March 26 - without a United [UN] Nation mandate - in a bid to restore power to the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Saudi Arabia, and to undermine Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement which is currently responding to the attacks on the country.