Alwaght- Iranian cargo ship to Yemen which is carrying 2,500 Tonnes of humanitarian aid including food, medicine supplies and basic requirements has arrived in the Gulf of Aden. Nejat (rescue) ship with international peace activists and volunteer doctors on board left Iran port city of Bandar Abbas on May 11 for its 10-day sail to Yemeni port city of Hudaydah. Nejat is set to unload its cargo on May 21.
Iranian officials said that Iran has made the necessary coordination with the Yemeni Red Crescent Society as well as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and held consultations with the Red Crescent Society of Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Djibouti to dispatch the cargo ship.
Previously, Saudi Arabia blocked Iranian aid deliveries to Yemen.
The Saudi regime had forced an Iranian cargo plane carrying medical aid and food for crisis-hit people in Yemen to return, on April 28.
The Iranian aircraft, which had earlier received permits from Omani and Yemeni aviation officials to cross into Yemen’s airspace, could not land at the international airport in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, as Saudi warplanes were violently striking the runway of the civil airport.
This incident occurred just a week after the Saudi fighter jets intercepted an Iranian airplane, carrying humanitarian aid to Yemen, and prevented it from entering the Yemeni airspace on April 22.
