Alwaght- A United Nations Security Council-appointed panel has refuted Saudi Arabia’s claims that missiles have been transferred to Yemen’s Ansarullah movement by external sources.
In an exclusive report, an investigative website, The Intercept, reported that after exhaustive investigations, the panel made sent a confidential assessment to Security Council diplomats on November 10.
On November 4, a missile attack from Yemen targeted the King Khalid International Airport (KKIA) near the Saudi capital, Riyadh. It was the first missile from Yemen to have reached deep inside Saudi territory.
The Ansarullah movement, which is allied to Yemeni army troops and tribal fighters, said it had fired the retaliatory Borkan H2 missile, which the Saudis said claimed they had intercepted mid-air.
However, the Riyadh regime quickly blamed the Islamic Republic of Iran for the incident. Iran rejected the allegations as “provocative and baseless,” saying Yemenis had shown an “independent” reaction to the Saudi bombing campaign on their country.
Iran also said that it could not transfer any weapons to Yemen because of the Saudi-led blockade.
Following the attack, the Saudi-led coalition tightened a blockade that had already been imposed on Yemen in a bid to prevent “the smuggling of weapons, ammunitions, missile parts and cash that are regularly being supplied by Iran” to the Ansarullah.
After the blockade was put in place November 6, U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock told the Security Council that the restrictions on aid to Yemen would result in “a famine killing millions of people, the likes of which the world has not seen for many decades.”
