A leading human rights group says it has confirmed a US -made bomb was used in a Saudi-led airstrike in Yemen that struck a hospital.
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The Saudi allegations about transporting arms into Yemen are “unfounded and undocumented”, Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations said in a statement.
He said in the letter obtained late Saturday by The Associated Press that the Houthis and their supporters “must be held accountable for their continued irresponsible and criminal behavior”.
In a statement released in response to Saudi claims, Iran’s United Nations mission has categorically rejected allegations that Iran has been arming Yemeni forces.
The Iranian mission accused Saudi Arabia of waging an “irrational war against the people of Yemen” and cited “numerous confirmed reports documenting Saudi Arabia’s war crimes and violation of worldwide law and global humanitarian law”.
The statement further stressed that the Islamic Republic of Iran does not believe in a military solution to Yemen and has always urged for cessation of hostilities, dialogue and resort to legal and peaceful mechanisms to achieve a peaceful resolution to this conflict.
A Saudi-led coalition has been battling Houthi rebels in Yemen since March 2015.
People walk on the rubble of a school destroyed in a Saudi airstrike, on the outskirts of the northwestern Yemeni city of Sa’ada, Yemen, September 14, 2016.
Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi’s government has openly announced its lack of faith in the bank’s former head Mohammed Awad Bin Hammam.
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A recent survey by a group of academics and human rights activists revealed that Saudi Arabia targeted 3,158 non-military sites in Yemen between March 2015 and the end of August this year.
