TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary of Iran's Expediency Council Mohsen Rezayee announced that Britain has played the most influential role in inciting Saudi Arabia to attack Yemen.

"Britain and Saudi Arabia have become closer over the past two years and their most important cooperation was the meddling in Bahrain's internal affairs and the UK has influenced Saudi Arabia more than any country with regard to the attack on Yemen," Rezayee said, addressing members of Tehran City Council in Tehran on Tuesday.


"It seems that Britain has come to the conclusion that it should retrieve its regional heritage back from the US after 50 years with the help of the Saudi Arabia," Rezayee added.


On Saturday, Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani voiced deep concern over the ongoing crisis in Yemen, and said the Saudi attack on Yemen means playing with fire.


"Unfortunately, some Arab countries on lame excuses and with aimless bombardments in Yemen have committed a clear and dangerous mistake and, in fact, they have started playing with fire," Rafsanjani, a former president who is known to have had very good ties with senior Saudi rulers when he was in power said, addressing a group of Iranian officials in Tehran.


He blasted the few Arab countries that have formed an anti-Yemen coalition led by Saudi Arabia, saying, "They have not taken the slightest effective action against the Quds occupying regime for over 50 years, but have become united against a regional Muslim state which is quite regrettable."


"Riyadh should not count on US support for its military invasion of Yemen," he added.


Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen for six days now, killing, at least, 60 civilians and injuring hundreds more.


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.


By Fars News Agency