Why do you keep silent on the crimes ofyour governments? Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani addressed the question to theSaudi people and other Arab and Muslim nations duringhis sermon to worshipers at the weekly Friday prayers in Tehran.
I justtellthe Saudi peopleand their neighboring Arab nations:You are complicit inthis sin withyour silence, he added.
The senior cleric said the Saudi government kills people in Yemen, refuses to allow inhumanitarian aid and poundsSana'a's airport to preventaid planes fromlanding.
Emami Kashani further noted that if Muslim nations had stood upagainst the arrogant powers crimes, they could have stopped the ongoing oppression against the Syrian, Iraqi, Palestinian and Yemeni people.
Saudi Arabia launched its airstrikes against Yemen on March 26 without a United Nations mandate in a bid to undermine the Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Riyadh.
The Saudi regimes warplanes have repeatedly targeted residential areas across the country.
On April 21, Riyadh announced the end of the first phase of its unlawful military operations, but airstrikes have continued, with Saudi bombers targeting different areas across the country in a new phase.
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A Yemeni man sits on the rubble as people search for survivors in houses destroyed by an overnight Saudi airstrike on a residential area in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on May 1, 2015. AFP[/caption]The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday that nearly 1,250 people have been killed in the ongoing conflict in Yemen since mid-March.
The UN health agency said 1,244 Yemenis havelost their lives and 5,044 havebeen injured from March 19 to April 27.
Hundreds of women and children are among those killed, according to the WHO.
By Press TV
