Tehran, April 29, IRNA – Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham slammed the Saudi act to ban Iran’s relief aids to Yemen.




She said the act by the Saudi Arabia to prevent an Iranian airplane carrying pharmaceutical assistance by Iran’s Red Crescent Organization in Sana'a Airport was definitely non-human, inspired by a feeling of vengeance.

She said the military operations by Saudi plane served to put even more pressure on the defenseless people.

She urged international organizations like the Red Cross to pave the way for delivery of foodstuff and pharmaceutical aids to Yemeni nation.

Simultaneous with the landing of an Iranian Red Crescent plane carrying food and medicine in Sana'a Airport, Saudi fighter jets, breaching all international norms, bombed the airport to prevent the IRI civilian plane's landing on Tuesday evening.

The Saudi jets also bombed the control tower of the airport in their inhumane war crime, but the Iranian pilot completed its landing successfully before taking off again due to the inappropriate conditions of the airport and heading back towards Iran.

The illegal and inhumane Saudi war crime took place under such conditions that Riyadh, under the pressure of the world public opinion and international organizations, had earlier announced that it had halted its air raids against Yemen.


By IRNA