They are targeted by an ongoing Saudi-led military campaign on behalf of Yemen’s internationally recognised government.
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He said the coalition will investigate Iran’s accusation and added that the Houthis have used civilian facilities, including abandoned embassies.
“Saudi Arabia bears responsibility for damaging the embassy and injuring its staff”, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari said as quoted by state TV channel IRIB.
It made the announcement in a statement carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency.
Residents and witnesses in Sanaa reported there was no damage to the main embassy building.
On January 2, Saudi Arabia executed 47 alleged terrorists, including a prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
But analysts say he has resisted pressure from Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias, politicians and protesters to close the newly reopened Saudi embassy in Baghdad.
Earlier, Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Abdullah al-Moallem said that relations with Iran will be restored only when Tehran stops “interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, including that of Saudi Arabia’s”.
“For the past 2¹/₂ years, Saudi Arabia has opposed Iran’s diplomacy”, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif charged at a news conference.
Tehran announced Thursday it was banning imports of goods from Saudi Arabia in response to the incident.
China has sent an envoy to Saudi Arabia and Iranto discuss the situation in the region after Riyadh recently cut its diplomatic relations with Tehran.
Saudi authorities had previously accused Nimr, a leading figure among the kingdom’s Shiite minority, of stoking sedition.
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The Saudi-led coalition, which is supported by the U.S., is targeting Houthi rebels aligned with former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who resigned in 2012 following a popular uprising against his rule.
