Pompeo’s ‘Blame Game’ Aimed at Concealing Yemen Crimes

Date: 01 May 2019 - 22:11

News ID: ۶۵۴۸۳

TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Iran has dismissed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s claims that Tehran was playing a negative role in Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah, saying Washington’s "blame game” is meant to cover up Saudi-Emirati crimes in the war-torn country.
Speaking at an event in Washington Monday, Pompeo claimed that Iran was directing Yemen’s Houthi fighters to renege on the commitments they made in Stockholm last December.
In December 2018, representatives from the Houthi movement and the Riyadh-sponsored government of ex-president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, reached a truce deal during UN-mediated peace talks in Sweden.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Moussavi said reports indicate cooperation between the Ansarullah-led government, known as the National Salvation Government of the Republic of Yemen, and UN special envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths and the opposite side’s bid to create obstacles in the implementation process.
Moussavi said the Islamic Republic has played a positive role in efforts that led to the conclusion of the Stockholm agreement.
Instead of leveling unfounded allegations against other countries, the U.S., as a country that supports Saudi Arabia and the UAE crimes in Yemen, should urge the aggressors to stop throwing a wrench in the implementation of the truce agreement and remain committed to their obligations under the deal, he said.
Yemeni forces have repeatedly accused Saudi Arabia and its allies of violating the Stockholm agreement.
Yemen’s armed forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sare'e said that Saudi-led forces had violated the ceasefire 184 times over a period of 48 hours.