UNITED NATIONS (Dispatches) – Iran’s deputy permanent representative to the UN has rejected “baseless” U.S. allegations that Tehran is destabilizing Yemen or using commercial flights to Sana’a to transfer military personnel or equipment.
In a letter to UN chief António Guterres and the Security Council president, Gholamhussein Darzi strongly rejected the allegations raised by the U.S. representative during a meeting on Yemen on Thursday.
Darzi said the claims are “without any supporting evidence,” particularly the U.S. assertion that Iranian commercial flights to Sana’a are being used to transport military forces or equipment in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2216.
“The allegations are completely baseless and unsupported by any credible evidence,” Darzi said, slamming Washington for attempting to mislead the Security Council.
He described the allegations as a “hypocritical” effort by the United States to divert attention from its own actions in Yemen and across the region and to evade responsibility for its destabilizing conduct.
Addressing Iranian flights to Sana’a, Darzi said they had a purely humanitarian character.
“The recent flights from Iran to Sana’a have been humanitarian in nature,” he said, stressing that the prolonged closure and severe restrictions imposed on Sana’a International
Airport, along with the blockade, have inflicted devastating humanitarian consequences on the Yemeni population.
Darzi said portraying humanitarian assistance as a destabilizing activity is “factually false as well as morally and legally indefensible.”
The Iranian envoy also challenged Washington’s claim to be a defender of peace and stability in Yemen, saying the United States could not credibly assume such a role while seeking to avoid responsibility for the destruction inflicted on the Yemeni people.
Darzi criticized the United States for directly undermining the political process in Yemen. “Washington’s military actions against Yemen in March 2025 violated the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and were contrary to the UN Charter and Security Council resolutions,” he said.
He further criticized Washington’s efforts to secure political support for Security Council Resolution 2722, adopted in 2024, followed by a selective and abusive interpretation of the resolution to justify military action against Yemen and its civilian infrastructure.
Such actions, Darzi said, have again violated Yemen’s sovereignty, escalated regional tensions and weakened prospects for a political settlement.
“It is therefore highly significant that the same regime whose actions have repeatedly undermined peace, violated Yemen’s sovereignty and resorted to unlawful force in flagrant violation of the UN Charter is now seeking to accuse Iran of destabilizing Yemen,” he said.
Darzi described the U.S. allegations as an attempt to “distort the facts” and shift responsibility away from those responsible for aggression and destabilization.
“Iran will continue to support a peaceful, inclusive and comprehensive political process that is Yemeni-led and Yemeni-owned, under the auspices of the United Nations, as the only viable and sustainable way to resolve the conflict,” he said.
Darzi called on the international community to engage “meaningfully, impartially and practically” with all relevant Yemeni parties while addressing the country’s humanitarian crisis and working to lift the blockade.
He also urged the Security Council to reject attempts by some members to use the body as an instrument for political objectives and instead “focus on the suffering of the Yemeni people and support a genuinely Yemeni-owned and Yemeni-led peace process.”