Iranian foreign ministry spokesman reacts to Arab media claim regarding alleged arms smuggling to Yemen

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has responded to a question from journalists regarding alleged smuggling of arms from Bandar Abbas to Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has responded to a question from journalists regarding alleged smuggling of arms from Bandar Abbas to Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah.

Kanaani said such claims are “baseless and repetitive staging” on the part of the “invading coalition and their Western supporters.”

The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said the invading coalition and their Western backers must be held accountable for the crimes that they have committed for 7 years in Yemen. Kanaani said those crimes have left innocents dead, destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and unleashed the greatest humanitarian catastrophe of the century.

He maintained that framing the Islamic Republic of Iran is only aimed at distracting the public opinion of regional and world countries from the realities of the Yemen crisis.

The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman added that Iran’s support for the Yemeni people was political from the very beginning of the crisis and that Iran has always backed the peaceful process in Yemen and also the UN’s efforts to peacefully end this devastating war and to keep the truce in Yemen.

He underlined that continuation of hostile policies and repetition of threadbare scenarios are at odds with their claim that they want the ceasefire hold and will not deliver any new outcome for the aggressors.