Iran official blasts Saudis over Yemen, brands King Salman as “traitor “

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Alaeddin Boroujerdi, Chairman for the Committee for Foreign Policy and National Security of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran.
Alaeddin Boroujerdi, Chairman for the Committee for Foreign Policy and National Security of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran.
A top member of Iran’s parliament called Saudi Arabia’s King Salman a traitor to Islam on Thursday, a sharp escalation in rhetoric over Riyadh’s air strikes against an Iranian-allied militia that has seized much of neighboring Yemen.

Although a five-day humanitarian truce was largely holding, and aid was getting to some of the millions of Yemenis deprived of food, fuel and medicine, tensions were also mounting over an Iranian relief ship, which Saudi Arabia insisted on inspecting.

Yemen is the latest theater in Shi’ite Muslim Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia’s tussle for power across the Middle East, which has played out along largely sectarian lines but has not yet led to direct confrontation between the Gulf powers.

Saudi Arabia and Arab states backed by the West have, since March 26, pounded Houthi rebels aligned with Tehran and forces loyal to ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, aiming to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, now exiled in Riyadh.

While on a visit to Syria, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee, branded King Salman “traitor of the noble Haramayn”, or two sacred sites — a play on his official title of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.

The Saudi-led coalition has imposed an air and maritime blockade to stop weapons supplies reaching the Houthis and their allies, but Iran said it would not let the Saudis inspect an aid shipment it had sent toward Yemen.

Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri, Deputy Chief of Iran’s Armed Forces, warned of war if the ship was attacked, and Hadi’s government withdrew its ambassador to Tehran.

WARNING SHOTS

There were hints of a possible resolution as Iran said it was coordinating with the United Nations to deliver its aid. But Iranian naval vessels also fired shots over a Singapore-flagged ship in international waters in the Gulf, in what a U.S. official said appeared to be a legal dispute.

Gulf leaders, including Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, were in the United States for meetings with U.S. President Barack Obama, hoping for reassurance that a deal on Iran’s nuclear program being negotiated with world powers will not harm their security.

On the other side of the Arabian Peninsula, the Houthis and forces loyal to Saleh remain entrenched across Yemen.

With no party seemingly ready to make concessions for a political solution, relief agencies were making the most of the brief truce, which began on Tuesday.

Aid flights were due to start overnight from the United Arab Emirates to the capital Sanaa, which is under Houthi control and has faced air strikes but no ground fighting. The United Nations said aid ships had docked at ports of Hodeida and Aden.

A shipping source in Yemen said at least three ships with fuel and wheat had docked in Hodeida and in al-Mukalla; Saudi Arabia had sent eight truckloads of diesel overland to Hadramout province; and Qatar had sent medicine and food via Djibouti.

The Houthi-run Saba news agency said two planes with medics and supplies from the International Committee of the Red Cross and Medecins sans Frontieres had landed in the capital.

In north Yemen, aid agencies started to distribute food to 33,000 people, as well as medicine to hospitals and hygiene kits to refugees, said the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Since Saturday, about 8 percent of the 5 million liters of fuel needed to distribute aid each month had arrived in Yemen.

TRUCE VIOLATIONS

Saudi Arabia and the Houthis have each accused the other of violating the truce.

Late on Wednesday, 24 hours after it began, Saudi Arabia said the Houthis had fired on the Saudi border and were continuing to fight inside Yemen, but that it would not resume air strikes yet.

On Thursday, residents said Houthis were still pushing toward al-Bureiqa, where Aden’s oil refineries are located. Residents also said two people had been killed by Houthi snipers in Aden, and seven Houthis had died in the city of al-Dhalea.

Talks between political parties other than the Houthis will start in Riyadh on Sunday and focus on southern demands for independence, which have grown as a result of the fighting, Foreign Minister Reyad Yassin Abdulla said.

“Aden and the south has suffered most of the damage, most demolition, most of the people killed and tortured. The Houthis concentrated their damage on the south. They killed what remained of the unity of Yemen,” he said by phone.

The former ruling General People’s Congress and main opposition groups including the southern Herak and Islamist Islah will attend the three-day talks, as well as tribal leaders, he said.

The United States has pushed Saudi Arabia and Hadi’s government to use the talks as a bridge to wider U.N.-sponsored discussions including the Houthis, Gulf diplomats have said.

REUTERS

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27 responses to “Iran official blasts Saudis over Yemen, brands King Salman as “traitor “”

  1. Fauzia45 Avatar
    Fauzia45

    ^Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong ^, Rousseau

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Yes … And Iran could just as easily given their ‘aid’ to the Red Crescent and let them deliver it.
      Equitably.

      1. Rascal Avatar

        Don’t forget, Iran is “resistance” to zionist plots and almost everything! They do not play well with others. I am pretty sure there are some psychosis involved there.

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          The Holy Psychosis.

      2. arzatna1 Avatar
        arzatna1

        But the Red Crescent is not supposed to deliver arms

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Exactly … which is the point … they wouldn’t.
          At the very least they wouldn’t remove those from an Iranian ship … OR add them to their own ship – in Iran – which actually delivers what is needed for humanitarian relief.

          1. Hend Abyad Avatar
            Hend Abyad

            Thousands years old Mesopotamia and Syria World Heritage cultural sites were destroyed with Saudi support of ISIS, now in Palmyra, while nouveau riche Medieval Saudis were a Bedouin tribes living in tents in the desert 80years ago, in WW1, ‘Standard oil B.P.’, British interests helped Ibn al Saud conquer Arabia. Medina World Heritage, all W.H. was destroyed by the Saudis. Now the most ancient country in Arabia, Yemen, being destroyed while Al Qaead was spared, isn’t that interesting?

            “Much of the Arabian Peninsula was politically unified by 1932 in the third and current Saudi State, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The military campaign led by King Abdulaziz ibn Saud and his Bedouin army of tribesmen conquered the Hejaz and ousted the ruling Hashemite clan. The new Najdi rulers, nomadic Arabs largely tribal and illiterate, found themselves at the reins of a highly sophisticated society. A cohesive political structure based on the Majlis al-Shura (consultative council) system had been in place for centuries”
            “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_early_Islamic_heritage_sites_in_Saudi_Arabia

          2. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            As we’ve seen, Hind, knowing the facts and doing anything with them 80 years later is quite useless, because ‘the now’ condition is the only one that matters to most.
            Here’s the new system … the ones running it, to their own advantage, are not going to change it back or make it more than it is … not easily … and ‘changes’ never happen instantly unless a huge amount of people die. The ones who support this or that will. And over time, with some real education, it may become more sensible and actually work for more people. One could hope – it’s still 25% illiterate.
            I don’t think they are interested in the past, anyway. ‘Riche’ is the word of the moment.

          3. Hend Abyad Avatar
            Hend Abyad

            It will never change, that’s impossible, Wahhabi IS the most extremist intolerant form of Islam. Islamic Jihad stems from Wahhabism. I blame the dirty business the Allies did to moderate Hashemite Family, who ruled Arabia for almost 1000 years. Because of their and Israel’s interests, Chaos and destruction doesn’t need anyone anymore, it lives by itself..too late.

          4. MaImequer0 Avatar
            MaImequer0

            oooh sweetie, taking lessons from wiki? Speaking of Hejaz, any idea what the kingdom of Hejaz flag from 1916 to 1925 looked like?

          5. Hend Abyad Avatar
            Hend Abyad

            The Hashemite ruled Arabia for 900years.

            Wiki is Zionists edited like Genesis. Who cares what temporary flags with fake promesses looked like. You invaded with the whole Western World power and Rothschild money behind. Zio stalker
            Did you eat mad cow meat today hacking my computer?
            Good for you, the more you hack, the more you stalk, the more you publish 514 videotron, the more you give me material. Arrogant Zionist Supremacist, your Justice minister advocates Genocide, who’s the terrorist? Israel lost all credibility.

          6. MaImequer0 Avatar
            MaImequer0

            LOL!!!! sweeite, projection-ism much??? OOOhhh, is there a jew inside your computer controlling your every key-stroke and reading all your dirty little secrets? You are not good with numbers are you, nothing adds up… LOL sweetie☻☻☻

      3. Hend Abyad Avatar
        Hend Abyad

        Jean Paul Rousseau is not my favourite philosopher..:)

        1. cook2half Avatar
          cook2half

          Wittgenstein is my favorite philosopher

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Balentine’s is good with me … in a stein.

          2. Hend Abyad Avatar
            Hend Abyad
          3. Hend Abyad Avatar
            Hend Abyad

            Spinoza also..

          4. MaImequer0 Avatar
            MaImequer0

            Ohhh sweetie.. having computer issues??? Maybe read a book instead, Since you are such a fan of conspiracies, perhaps consider BrookingsSyria0315 Syria Saban…. lol sweetie☻

    2. Hend Abyad Avatar
      Hend Abyad

      Please say that to MekensehParty (although Jean Paul Rousseau is not my favourite philosopher:))

  2. Rascal Avatar

    Iran has some of the worlds most uncouth and unprofessional politicians/mullahs. They constantly bash and talk trash in the most hypocritical ways. It is baffling that they act in such manner. There is no wonder why they are so hated.

  3. On Friday morning, May 15, the channel “Al Arabiya” (United Arab Emirates) said that in Yemen died of his wounds, the commander of the militants Huthis Abdullah Yahia al-Hakim, also known as “Abu Ali al-Hakim.”
    The report did not specify exactly when he was wounded. But recall that his residence in Sana’a was bombed by allied air in April 28

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Turned out if was only the 2-IC.

  4. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    It’s just a Dr. Maher update
    Hind, Farq and the orchestra can now use “traitor to Islam” when talking about Salman

    1. Hend Abyad Avatar
      Hend Abyad

      That’s what O says…

      1. MaImequer0 Avatar
        MaImequer0

        Did you miss your appointment with Dr. Mayer?

    2. Hend Abyad Avatar
      Hend Abyad

      ISIS not Islam but terrorists

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaDieN0YyQ

  5. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Tehran will continue to support the “oppressed people of Palestine, Bahrain and Yemen.” He spoke to the foreign ambassadors.

    He also sharply criticized Saudi Arabia, gathered a coalition against Shiite rebels in Yemen: “Those who unleashed the suffering on the Yemeni people during the sacred months, behaves worse than the heathen, who ruled Mecca in ancient times.”

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