Iran Stresses Its Complete Refusal of the Saudi Allegations of Arms Supply to Yemen: Report

“The remarks uttered by some Saudi officials are very much telling the Saudi government’s desperation for any fair political analyst,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Monday.

He added that when Riyadh and its allies, including the UAE, began their military campaign on Yemen, they thought that they can attain their goal of occupation of the poor Arab country but “after nearly three years, we are witnessing that Saudi Arabia has sunk in the quagmire and its dreams have not come true”.

Qassemi referred to the siege laid on Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition which even prevents dispatch of foodstuff and humanitarian aid to the Yemeni people, and said, “I state clearly that we have not sent any weapons to Yemen and Yemen has had many weapons and missiles since far past during the Soviet-era.”

In relevant remarks in February, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi dismissed as “biased” Washington’s allegations of supplying Yemen with missiles and underlined that Tehran will continue its policies in the region.

“I think that the biased nature of these allegations and the method for regulating expert reports of the Commission of Inquiry on Yemen and the UN Security Council is fully clear,” Araqchi said.

He expressed pleasure that the US failed to approve an anti-Iran resolution at the UN Security Council which deplored Tehran for alleged supply of missiles to Yemen, and said, “The US administration has several times in the past year attempted to raise Iran’s name at the UN Security Council under the pretexts of missile tests, internal riots or Yemen issue which shows the US isolation in the region.”

“We will continue our policies in the region and what meets the governments’ interests,” Araqchi underscored.