Yemenis shatter US-Saudi myth

Now, the Yemenis have realized that if Saudis and their allies fail in Yemen, they will also be defeated in all fields and on other fronts, Al-Ja'haf said in an exclusive interview with the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).

Al-Ja'haf referred to the Saudis' claim on Iran's interference in Yemen and the region, saying the Islamic Republic of Iran has proved that it is helping to secure the region by creating a balance of power.

If it had not been for Iran's power, the Saudis would have sealed the doom of all Arab and Islamic countries, he said.

Elaborating on the origin of the three-year-old war in Yemen, he said that the war had no logic.

They claimed that Ansarullah Movement and the Yemeni people posed a threat to the Arab world and the region, while it was Saudis that were considered a regional threat, he said.

Now, after three years, it has become clear that their pretext for restoring law and security to Yemen was nothing but a lie.

The story of the deposed president of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi was a pretext for implementing their plots, he noted.

Their excuse for preventing Iran’s penetration into Yemen was false, Al-Ja'haf said.

Commenting on the casualties of the war on Yemen, he said 36,828 civilians have fallen victims to the Saudi aggression.

He went on to say that 14,291 people were killed, among them 3,057 children, 2,086 women and 9,148 men.

Due to sale of weapons and logistical and intelligence aid to aggressors and also having a hand in the inhumane blockade of Yemen, undoubtedly, the UK is responsible for war crimes in that country, the Iranian FM spokesman Bahram Qasemi earlier said.

Britain undoubtedly has been directly involved in the war crimes committed in Yemen over the past three years through sale of weapons and providing logistic and intelligence assistance to the aggressors and helping in blockading the country, Qasemi said while rejecting allegations made in a statement issued by two British secretaries on dispatch of weapons to Yemen by Iran.

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