Spokesman Dismisses Saudi Claim of Iran’s Interference in Peace Process in Yemen

“The Saudi foreign minister’s allegations that Iran has blocked establishment of peace in Yemen are ridiculous and baseless,” Qassemi said on Monday.

Stressing that Iran has condemned the Saudi-led aggression against Yemen since the start of the war and has spared no efforts to end this bloody war, he said that repetition of false claims in the Riyadh conference (the meeting of foreign ministers and military chiefs of Saudi-led coalition countries on Sunday) never decreases the humanitarian and international responsibility of those who have committed terrible crimes in Yemen.

Qassemi underlined that the only way to resolve problems in Yemen is ending the war, sending humanitarian aid to the Yemenis and comprehensive talks among all Yemeni groups, and advised those who attended the Riyadh conference to stop wrong attitudes and pave the ground for the termination of war and start of all-inclusive talks.

Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen since March 2015 to restore power to fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 15,000 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.

Despite Riyadh’s claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

According to several reports, the Saudi-led air campaign against Yemen has drove the impoverished country towards humanitarian disaster, as Saudi Arabia’s deadly campaign prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country.

The cholera outbreak in Yemen which began in April, has also claimed 2,100 lives and has infected 700,000, as the nation has been suffering from what the World Health Organization (WHO) describes as the “largest epidemic in the world” amid a non-stop bombing campaign led by Saudi Arabia. Also Riyadh’s deadly campaign prevented the patients from traveling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country.

According to reports, the cholera epidemic in Yemen, which is the subject of a Saudi Arabian war and total embargo, is the largest recorded in modern history.