Alwaght- Iran has rejected “destructive, irresponsible, provocative and baseless” allegations leveled by the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, accusing Tehran of being behind a Saturday missile attack on Riyadh.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi made the remarks on Monday after the coalition, which includes a number of Saudi Arabia’s satellite states, said in a statement earlier in the day that Iran was to blame for a Yemeni missile strike on Riyadh.
He pointed to Saudi war crimes and acts of aggression against Yemen, saying that Yemenis had showed an “independent” reaction to Saudi attacks that was not rooted in another country's measures or provocations.
The Saudis, who have failed to achieve their ominous objectives through a long-term war in Yemen, have leveled “delusive, baseless and totally false” accusations against Tehran by launching an inept and inapt psychological campaign, but through such measures, they are only creating more obstacles in the path of their failing coalition, Qassemi said.
The Iranian spokesperson urged the Saudis to stop playing a blame game as well as leveling unfounded accusations against others and carrying out attacks on innocent and defenseless Yemeni people as soon as possible.
They had better prepare the ground for Yemeni-Yemeni dialogue and the establishment of peace in the impoverished country, Qassemi said.
Zarif: Saudi Arabia blames Iran for consequences of its 'wars of aggression'
In a relevant development on Monday, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif published a post on his official Twitter account, taking Saudi Arabia to task for its destabilizing role in the region.
Zarif also noted that while Saudi Arabia has been waging “wars of aggression” across region, it blames the Islamic Republic for the consequences of its “risky provocations.”
“KSA is engaged in wars of aggression, regional bullying, destabilizing behavior & risky provocations. It blames Iran for the consequences,” Zarif said in his tweet.
Borkan H2 missile
The Yemeni army on Sunday confirmed that it had targeted Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh with a long distance Borkan H2 ballistic missile.
"Our Yemeni forces succeeded in launching a missile, a Borkan H2 long distance missile, at King Khalid International Airport in northeastern Riyadh, which was in response to the massacres committed by the US-Saudi coalition in Yemen,” said Colonel Aziz Rashed, a spokesman for the Yemeni army.
Saudi Arabia also confirmed the launch, saying, however, that Saudi Arabia's air defense intercepted the missile, bringing it down to the north of the airport.
Iran not transferring missiles to Yemen
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) commander also dismissed allegations leveled by US President Donald Trump that Tehran supplied missiles to Yemeni forces.
In his reaction, the commander of dismissed as “baseless” the allegations leveled by Trump about the Islamic Republic’s supply missiles to Yemeni forces.
“Trump’s claims about providing Yemen with missiles by the Islamic Republic of Iran are baseless,” Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said on Sunday.
He added that Iran had no means of transferring missiles to Yemen, noting that missiles used by Yemeni forces belonged to themselves and they had only increased their range.
