Riyadh in No Position to Accuse Tehran: Official

Date: 13 November 2020 - 21:22

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TEHRAN (Dispatches) – A high-ranking Iranian official has slammed the Saudi king for his anti-Tehran accusations, saying the regime in Riyadh need to free itself from the yoke of the Zionist regime and start respecting its neighbors.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, a senior aide to Iran’s parliament speaker in international affairs, says the Saudi monarch, who has ordered the invasion of Yemen and stood by American-backed Daesh terrorists in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen, has no right to level any accusations against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
"Riyadh had better stop serving the Israeli regime, and start respecting its neighbors. Iran has always been the main supporter of peace and security of neighbors and the region,” he said in a tweet.
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz urged the world on Thursday to take "a decisive stance” to address efforts by Iran to develop nuclear and ballistic missile programs, in his annual address to the Shura Council, the kingdom's top government advisory body.
The Saudi king warned about what he called "dangers of Iran’s regional project,” and accused Tehran of "interference" in other countries, fostering terrorism and fanning the flames of sectarianism.
In comments in September, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman stated that successive political and military defeats in Yemen have plunged the kingdom into a "state of delirium.”
At the time, Saeed Khatibzadeh highlighted the Saudi regime’s atrocities and civilian massacre in Yemen, saying the Saudis are engaging in a blame game to "escape responsibility for their own war crimes against Yemeni women and children.”
"As the birthplace and origin of the ideas of Takfiri terrorist groups and as the main financial and logistical supporter of terrorism in the region, Saudi Arabia has, for many years, been pursuing a policy of blame games and distorting the realities to escape accountability for its crimes,” Khatibzadeh said.
"The Saudi regime’s support for and alignment with the United States in keeping up the failed policy of ‘maximum pressure’ against Iran as well as [the kingdom’s] attempts to expand relations with the occupying Zionist regime and [paying] billions of dollars in bribe money to others from the pockets of the people of the country, has not only failed to bring results for them, but has turned Saudi Arabia into a humiliated entity among the Arab states.”