Senior Iranian MP: Aggression on Yemen to Backfire on Saudi Arabia

Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi strongly blasted the Saudi-led attack on the Yemeni people, and warned against the negative consequences of the aggression for the Al Saud regime.

“The Saudi government will have to deal with the negative repercussions of this attack for the years to come,” Boroujerdi told reporters on Saturday.

He said Saudi Arabia has been practicing the same aggressive policies against Yemen for many years now, and said, “The Saudi government has used all leverages over the past years to implement its policies in this country, but it has failed to achieve its goals.”

Boroujerdi reiterated that the Al Saud cannot defeat the brave people of Yemen.

The senior Iranian lawmaker, meantime, pointed to Turkey’s role in the region, and said, “It is for many years now that Turkey has been assisting terrorists and creating opportunities for training them in Syria, but its policies have eventually failed.”

On Friday, senior parliamentary officials in Tehran said that Yemen has missiles which can destroy targets deep inside Saudi Arabia.

“Saudi Arabia is well aware that the Yemeni people and armed forces are capable of targeting the military bases of Saudi Arabia at a distance of 500 kilometers inside that country,” member of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Hassan Asafari told FNA.

Asafari called on the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council to condemn the Saudi airstrikes on Yemen, and said, “Saudi Arabia would never dare take such grave action alone, and it has surely committed the crime after receiving a green light from the US.”

He also urged the Yemeni people to give a crushing response to the US aggressions in order to prevent recurrence of similar attacks in the future.

Saudi Arabia started airstrikes against Yemen and killed, at least, 25 civilians early Thursday, one day after the US-backed Yemeni president fled the country.

Also, 15 more people were killed and injured in a second round of massive attacks by the Saudi Arabian fighter jets in the Northwestern Yemeni city of Sa’ada on Friday.

Yemen’s al-Massira TV reported that the Saudi air force targeted civilians who were shopping in a market.

Five Persian Gulf States — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait — backed by the US have declared war on Yemen in a joint statement issued earlier Thursday.

US President Barack Obama authorized the provision of logistical and intelligence support to the military operations, National Security Council Spokesperson Bernadette Meehan said late Wednesday night.

She added that while US forces were not taking direct military action in Yemen, Washington was establishing a Joint Planning Cell with Saudi Arabia to coordinate US military and intelligence support.

Riyadh claimed that it has bombed the positions of the Ansarullah fighters and launched attacks against the Sana’a airport and the Dulaimi airbase.

Despite Riyadh’s claims that it is attacking Ansarullah positions, Saudi warplanes have flattened a number of homes near Sana’a international airport. Based on early reports, the Saudi airstrikes on Yemen have so far claimed the lives of 25 civilians with more deaths feared, Yemeni sources said.