Alwaght-An Iranian ship carrying humanitarian aids will arrives at Yemen tomorrow, whereas Iran is readying to send another humanitarian aid cargo to Yemen.
On Tuesday, The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) Managing Director Seyed Amir Mohsen Ziyaee announced, the Iranian Red Crescent Society will send another ship with relief aid to Yemen soon", pointing out, "A 12,000-ton shipment of Iran's relief aids is being prepared for dispatch to Yemen".
The Iranian aid ship, chartered by Iran's Red Crescent Society, the counterpart of the Red Cross- is now only fifty nautical miles away from Yemen's al-Hudayda port.
The Nejat (Rescue) cargo ship, which contains 2,500 tons of much-needed aid, including food, medical supplies and tents, was directed towards Yemen on Monday, 11 May.
Iranian officials said the ship would reach Yemen within the next ten to twelve days.
The ship will sail through the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman, the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden. After its arrival in the Bab el-Mandeb strait, the vessel will enter the Red Sea and is set to unload its cargo in southern Yemeni city of Aden or al-Hudaydah port.
The IRCS has been trying to dispatch humanitarian aid to Yemen through sea and air, but has so far been unable to do so due to Saudi Arabia's blockade of the war-ravaged country.
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.
Over 1700 civilians mostly children and women have been killed and 7.000 others injured since 21 March Saudi-led aggression on Yemenis, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported.
