TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman
Bahram Qassemi strongly condemned the recent attacks by Saudi fighter
jets on civilian targets in different Yemeni cities, including the
kingdom’s Saturday bombing of a wedding ceremony in Northern Ma’rib
province.
"The
intensified bombardment of residential areas, the continued blockade and
closure of maritime, ground, and air entry points, and the denial of
access to humanitarian aid and basic needs by Saudi rulers indicate
their desperation, defeat and countless failures in achieving their
goals through aggression on Yemen," Qassemi said late on Sunday.
An airstrike by Saudi Arabia targeted a wedding ceremony East of Yemen’s capital Saturday night, killing at least a dozen women.
The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman sympathized with the families of the victims of Saturday's violent crimes.
Qassemi criticized the international community for
its silence on war crimes committed by the Saudi rulers with the help
of the US-supplied weapons.
Witnesses and health officials said the airstrike
targeted the women as they marched in the Harib al-Qaramesh region in
Ma’rib province, where it’s a tradition for the bride’s female friends
and relatives to escort her to the wedding ceremony where the groom
awaits.
Separately, at least three civilians lost their
lives when Saudi aircraft carried out an assault in Mawza district in
Yemen’s southwestern province of Ta’iz on Sunday evening.
Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen since March
2015 to restore power to fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally
of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 15,300
Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.
Despite Riyadh's claims that it is bombing the
positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening
residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
According to several reports, the Saudi-led air
campaign against Yemen has driven the impoverished country towards
humanitarian disaster, as Saudi Arabia's deadly campaign prevented the
patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of
medicine into the war-torn country.
The cholera outbreak in Yemen which began in
April, has also claimed over 2,200 lives and has infected about one
million people, as the nation has been suffering from what the World
Health Organization (WHO) describes as the “largest epidemic in the
world” amid a non-stop bombing campaign led by Saudi Arabia. Also
Riyadh's deadly campaign prevented the patients from traveling abroad
for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn
country.
According to reports, the cholera epidemic in
Yemen, which is the subject of a Saudi Arabian war and total embargo, is
the largest recorded in modern history
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