TEHRAN – Iran on Saturday condemned the Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen, warning that the attacks make achieving a just peace in the country more difficult.
“The continuation of the coalition’s military attacks on Yemen amid the silence and indifference of the international community, the ceaseless sale of weapons to the aggressors and adoption of biased approaches and double standards in international quarters during seven years of cruel aggression against the Yemeni people have made the path to achieve a just peace in the country even more difficult,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said.
He said the countries that sell weapons to aggressors in Yemen and provide them with bombs and destructive arms, which have led to the killing of Yemeni women and children, are complicit in the crimes and should be held accountable.
Khatibzadeh said the insistence on maintaining the siege on Yemen and bombing its people indicates a lack of serious determination to find a political solution.
This approach will only lead to Yemen’s destruction and spread instability in the region, he added.
On Saturday, five people were pulled out from the rubble, raising the death toll from the Saudi-led coalition bombing of a temporary detention center in Sa’ada to 87 people.
Another 266 people were injured, most of them in critical condition, Yemen’s Minister of Public Health and Population Taha al-Mutawakil said.
Late Thursday, Saudi-led coalition warplanes also struck a communications center in Hudaydah, killing six children playing soccer nearby and plunging Yemen offline as the war-torn nation lost its connection to the internet.