Iran rejects ‘baseless’ US claim of arming Yemen’s Ansarullah
Iran rejected “baseless” accusations by the United States about the Islamic Republic’s military and financial support for Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance group, saying that Tehran has always supported peace and stability in the Arab country.
In a letter to the United Nations chief and the president of the Security Council, Iran’s Permanent Mission to the UN emphasized that the US cannot hide its complicity in Israel’s crimes by pinning the blame on Iran for regional tensions.
Iran’s reaction came after US Deputy Representative to the UN Dorothy Shea in an address to a Security Council briefing on Yemen alleged that Iran’s materiel and financial support had enabled Yemen’s Ansarullah to launch “numerous attacks on civilian infrastructure” and fire at American warships in the Red Sea.
“Unlike the United States that provides weapons and extensive financial support to the Israeli regime to continue its aggression against the oppressed people of the region, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been and will keep adhering to the fundamental principles of the international law, the United Nations Charter, and Security Council resolutions,” Iran’s mission said.
Tehran has adopted a “unified and stable” position on Yemen’s crisis and believes that the conflict must be resolved via a “comprehensive political process” that guarantees the country’s independence, national sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity.
The US, UK, and Israel have launched attacks across Yemen over the past months in violation of the country’s sovereignty and international law.
The illegal attacks came in response to Yemen’s campaign to show solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid a genocidal Israeli war.
“Since the beginning of the Yemen crisis, the Islamic Republic of Iran has called for an immediate end to aggression, a cease-fire, the start of meaningful dialogue between Yemeni parties, and the peaceful settlement of the conflict with no foreign interference,” the Iranian mission said.
The future of Yemen must be determined by its own people, it noted, stressing that lasting peace is only possible there “through diplomacy, respect for national sovereignty, and adherence to international law, not through military interventions or false accusations.”
Since the beginning of Israel’s onslaught on the Gaza Strip, the Yemeni Armed Forces have targeted ships heading to or departing ports in the occupied territories, or those linked to Israel, in the southern Red Sea, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the Gulf of Aden, and even in the Arabian Sea.
They have also conducted strikes against Israeli targets in the occupied lands.