Saudi Crimes in Yemen Unprecedented
Addressing Friday prayers worshippers in Tehran yesterday, Ayatollah Kazem Sediqi said the Riyadh regime is killing innocent people and children in Yemen and destroying the country’s hospitals and infrastructures.
Despite these unfrequented for nearly two years, Saudi Arabia has failed to reach its objectives in Yemen, the cleric noted.
He added that creation of the Supreme Political Council in Yemen with the support of millions of Yemenis is a new political defeat for the Riyadh regime that has become the seditious element in the region.
Last week, Yemeni people took to streets in the capital, Sana’a, in their millions to support the Supreme Political Council, formed after peace talks with the Saudi side broke down.
The decision to establish the council was made by Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and former President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s General People’s Congress party in late July.
It was formally launched on August 6, when the Houthis and Saleh’s faction announced that they both had an equal share in the 10-member body.
Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been launching airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement since March 2015 in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
Nearly 9,400 Yemenis, including 4,000 women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.
