Zarif: Saudi moves ‘provocative, dangerous’

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Iran » Iran
Publish Date: 18:39 - 07 November 2017
TEHRAN, November 7 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif said Saudi measures are provocative and dangerous.

Zarif: Saudi moves ‘provocative, dangerous’TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -In a phone call with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Zarif also rejected Saudi officials’ accusations against Iran, saying that raising such claims run counter to the international law and the UN Charter.

They also discussed issues of mutual interests as well as key regional and international developments.

Saudi Arabia has ramped up threats to Iran, saying there will be a response "in the appropriate time and manner," following a missile strike from neighboring Yemen, which has been under a nonstop bombardment campaign by a Saudi-led coalition for over two and a half years.

The coalition, which includes a number of Saudi Arabia’s vassal states under its command, said in a statement on Sunday that Iran was to blame for a Yemeni missile strike on Riyadh earlier in the day.

That missile was fired by the Houthi Ansarullah movement, which together with allied Yemeni army factions and tribal fighters has been fighting off the Saudi-led coalition.

Riyadh and its allies accuse the Houthis of receiving financial and arms support from Iran. The Islamic Republic rejects the accusations, but is supportive of the Yemeni defensive campaign against the Saudi invasion, Presstv reported.

The Saudi-led coalition went further in its Sunday statement, claiming that the Houthis were under Iran’s “direct command.”

Saudi Arabia has been pursuing an open warmongering policy toward Iran. Earlier this year, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman threatened to move the “battle” to Iran.

Obviously, such bellicose rhetoric has not remained unanswered. Iranian authorities have all along made sure that Saudi royals realize that aggression of any magnitude will be reciprocated.

The Saudi-led coalition invaded Yemen in March 2015 to reinstall a former regime that had been friendly to Saudi Arabia. It also imposed a land, aerial, and naval blockade on the already-impoverished country.

 

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