The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry rejected as baseless allegation that weapons were being smuggled from Iran’s southern port city of Bandar Abbas to Yemen’s Hudeidah port.
In comments on Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani responded to a question from journalists regarding alleged smuggling of arms from Bandar Abbas to Yemen’s Hudeidah.
Kanaani said such claims are “baseless and repetitive staging” on the part of the “invading coalition and their Western supporters.”
The spokesman said the invading coalition and their Western backers must be held accountable for the crimes that they have committed for seven years in Yemen.
“Those crimes have left innocents dead, destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and unleashed the greatest humanitarian catastrophe of the century,” he added.
He maintained that framing Iran is only aimed at distracting the public opinion of regional and world countries from the realities of the Yemen crisis, the Foreign Ministry’s website reported.
Kanaani added that Iran’s support for the Yemeni people was political from the very beginning of the crisis and that Iran has always backed the peaceful process in Yemen and also the UN’s efforts to peacefully end this devastating war and to keep the truce in Yemen.
He underlined that continuation of hostile policies and repetition of threadbare scenarios are at odds with their claim that they want the ceasefire hold and will not deliver any new outcome for the aggressors.
Source: Iranian media
