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News ID: 13236
Publish Date : 26 April 2015 - 21:39
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Saudi Behavior Will Not Go Unanswered

TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hussein Amir Abdollahian warned on Sunday that the Saudi behavior and its siege of Yemen and preventing the dispatch of humanitarian aids "will not remain unanswered".

"We consider all options for helping the Yemeni people and immediate dispatch of humanitarian aid and transfer of the injured,” he said.
Noting that Saudi Arabia has no right to decide for regional countries, he added that Riyadh’s military intervention in Bahrain has left hundreds of people dead and injured, and created instability and a wide gap between the government and nation in the Persian Gulf state.
"The continuation of Saudi aggression against Yemen will have no outcome but insecurity for Saudi Arabia and for the region,” Amir-Abdollahian said.
The Iranian official added that Saudi Arabia was expected to take steps to "improve sustainable security in the region” but it has become the main cause of regional instability.
He expressed hope that Riyadh would reconsider its wrong approaches and play a constructive role in the region, noting, "Tehran has always supported dialog between the two countries" through diplomatic channels.
Amir-Abdollahian’s remarks came after Saudi fighter jets intercepted an Iranian airplane carrying humanitarian aid to Yemen and prevented it from entering the Yemeni airspace on Thursday.
Following Riyadh’s interception of the Iranian aid flight, Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Friday summoned Saudi Arabia’s chargé d'affaires in Tehran to express its protest over the move.
An Iranian foreign ministry official said the Saudi move came after the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) had obtained the necessary permission to fly in the Oman-Yemen route and send a plane in coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in order to fly Yemeni patients back to Iran and distribute medical aid to the injured in the impoverished Arab country.
Saudi Arabia launched its air campaign against Yemen on March 26 - without a United Nations mandate - in a bid to undermine the Houthi movement's Ansarullah fighters and to restore power to the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.
On April 21, Riyadh announced the end of the first phase of its unlawful military operation, which has claimed the lives of nearly 1,000 people, but airstrikes have continued with Saudi bombers targeting different areas across the country.
Meanwhile, Imam of Kaaba Shaikh Khalid al-Ghamidi on Sunday urged the people of Saudi Arabia and Iran to unite over the Holy Qur’an and Sunnah.
Speaking exclusively to Geo News in an interview on the program 'Jirga', the imam urged Saudi Arabia and Iran to shun their differences.
The imam said that the enemies want to hurt Muslims by creating divisions within their ranks, and that the unity of the Muslim Ummah is the need of the hour.
"As the Imam of Haram Sharif, I call upon all Muslims, whether it is our Saudi or Iranian brothers, to unite over the Holy Qur’an and Sunnah. Today, our enemy does not want to see us united. They want to see us divided like this," he said in the exclusive interview with Saleem Safi.
"A Muslim is the flag-bearer of Qur’an and Sunnah. It is critical that we unite while shunning sectarian differences," he said.
Speaking about Taliban and ISIL militant groups, the imam said that those who misinterpret the Qur’an and apply Qur’anic verses about infidels on other Muslims are "khwarij” or outcasts.