Iran: Intensified Bombing of Yemen’s Residential Areas Indicates Saudi Despair

“Saudi Arabia’s intensified bombing of residential areas, continued siege, shutting down marine transportation, ground and air ways of Yemen and not allowing in the humanitarian aid and needs of civilian people all show the country’s despair and failure in attaining the objectives of its aggression against Yemen,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Wednesday.

He also blasted the international community for keeping mum about such crimes, calling on the UN and influential countries to endeavor to immediately stop the attacks and adopt the necessary measures to protect the lives of Yemeni civilians, specially women and children.

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 driven 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 over 2,100 lives and has infected 750,000, 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.