He said that Houthi militias used civilian establishments, including deserted embassies, adding that the coalition had asked all countries to provide the locations of their diplomatic missions.
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Residents and witnesses in the capital Sanaa said there was no damage to the embassy building in the district of Hadda.
Iran’s foreign ministry accused Saudi Arabia of intentionally targeting Iran’s embassy with airstrikes in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.
Also on Thursday, Iran banned all products from Saudi Arabia and said a ban on Iranians travelling to the Saudi holy city of Mecca for the umrah pilgrimage would remain in place “until further notice”. Late Sunday, Saudi Arabia announced it was severing relations with Iran because of the assaults.
Iran denounced the attacks on the Saudi missions, but the repercussions quickly rippled across the region with Saudi allies Bahrain, Sudan and Djibouti also cutting diplomatic ties with Tehran.
The accusation comes on the heels of Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric, which inflamed the predominately Shia Iran.
The ongoing diplomatic standoff between Iran and Saudi Arabia began Saturday, when the kingdom executed Nimr and 46 others convicted of terror charges – the largest mass execution it has carried out since 1980.
Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported that a number of guards at the embassy were injured, and part of the building’s wall was damaged in the strike by Saudi warplanes Wednesday night.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who leads his divided country with a Shi’ite-dominated govenrment, has expressed “intense shock” at the execution of Nimr, condemning it as human rights violation.
Somalia called on Iran to respect the sovereignty of all States as per worldwide law, the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961 as well as global diplomatic norms.
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The nuclear deal, once implemented, would gradually eliminate some sanctions against the Islamic republic, potentially posing a challenge to Saudi Arabia, which has been pumping out more oil to reduce prices, partly in anticipation of Iran rejoining the market.
