Leader's Top Aide:

Iran's Aid to Yemen Confined to Political Support

TEHRAN (defapress)- Iranian Supreme Leader's top aide for international affairs Ali Akbar Velayati dismissed allegations raised by the US and Saudi Arabia about the supply of Iranian missiles to Yemen, stressing that Tehran has only rendered political support for the war-hit Arab nation.

News ID: 67738

Date: 26 December 2017 - 14:47

"The reactionary Arab countries have directly intervened in Yemen under the name of an Arab coalition, and Iran has done nothing but rendering political support and humanitarian aid to save the Yemeni people," Velayati told reporters in a press conference in Tehran on Tuesday.

"The main enemies of Yemen are those who pound its people every day with hundreds of tons of bombs while Iran has made no move but extending humanitarian aid to Yemen," he added.

In relevant remarks late in November, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami and Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari dismissed US officials' allegations about the supply of Iranian missiles to the Yemeni Ansarullah group.

"The US can't accuse Iran of any event that happens in the region, although this is not unlikely of the enemy to raise such accusations," General Hatami said.

"The enemy uses any opportunity to level accusations against Iran and we firmly reject it," he added.

"Does anyone ask the US what they supply to Saudi Arabia," General Hatami said.

Meantime, General Jafari dismissed the allegations that Iran has supplied Ansarullah with missiles that hit the Saudi airport as "baseless".

"We don’t have the means and possibility to send missiles to Yemen and the missiles belong to themselves and they have increased their range," he underlined.

General Jafari said that the allegations are of a series of "baseless remarks and allegations" that US President Donald Trump has leveled against Iran.