Tabnak – After the US Ambassador to the United Nations targeted Iran with an array of accusations over Yemen crisis, Iranian officials have doubled down on their efforts to reveal US’ true intentions in the region. Iran is also about to formally submit a complaint on this case to the UN.
Iran is set to submit its complaint against US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley’s baseless claims, Iranian foreign minister was quoted saying. “Iran will send its letter of complaint to the United Nations,” Mohammad Javad Zarif reportedly wrote in an email to Russian News Agency Sputnik on Sunday.
A day before, Zarif had once again dismissed as "baseless" the US allegation that Tehran supplies missiles to Yemen, saying it is an attempt by Washington to whitewash its war crimes in the Middle East.
"In an attempt to cover up its presence in the region and measures which can mostly amount to war crimes, the US levels baseless allegations against the Islamic Republic of Iran by displaying a piece of metal," Zarif told reporters on Saturday.
The top Iranian diplomat further said the US made such allegations against Iran while it provided Saudi Arabia with cluster bombs that kill Yemeni civilians, and supported the Saudi regime's blockade on the impoverished country.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri denounced as “absurd” recent remarks made by the US diplomat. “This person’s comments have their roots in her lack of understanding of military issues, Jazayeri said in response to Haley.”
“If the Americans had been informed of the high level of the Yemeni resistance’s missile technology, they would have refused to make such absurd comments,” the commander noted.
On the other hand, Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesman for the UN secretary general, also doubted the Saudi and American claims, saying even the UN had been unable to confirm the origin of the missiles shown by Haley. "There's no conclusive evidence about the provenance of those missiles," he told reporters on Thursday, quoting an upcoming UN resolution in this regard.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley went on live television last Thursday to display debris purportedly from a ballistic missile that had been fired from Yemen at an airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
This is while, since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
Over 14,000 Yemenis, including thousands of women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.
