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YEMEN will become a quagmire for the US and the Saudi Arabian regime, Iranian military officials warned at a major international conference highlighting the impact of the devastating three year war.
Brigadier General Hossein Salami told delegates from 35 countries to the International Conference on Supporting the Oppressed and Resistant Yemenis that defiance is growing despite the brutal war being led by the Saudi regime against the impoverished nation.
He dismissed US claims that Iran was supplying weapons to the Houthi forces, who overthrew Saudi-backed president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. He also highlighted the blockade of the key port of Hudaydah which is stopping food and medical supplies from reaching the general population.
“The US president said Iran was to blame for the situation in Yemen. We say ‘you and the Saudis are blocking the entry of food and medicine in Yemen. How is it that you are allowing missiles in there?
“How do you put the blame on Iran, while you have closed all the borders? Imagine that Iran provides the Yemenis with political and spiritual support. Could that serve as a good reason to impose a siege on them and massacre them?” he told those gathered.
The head of Iran’s Basij forces Brigadier-General Gholam-Hossein Gheibparvar said that the resistance of the Yemeni people would live on in history reminding those gathered that Iran has also suffered from US-backed war and economic blockades.
“We have learned that where there is resistance, there is also victory. The Saudi rulers have not achieved dignity, but have brought themselves eternal humiliation,” he said.
United Nations envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths is due to visit the besieged port of Hudaydah later this week as he appealed for a ceasefire and talks to reconvene in Sweden next month to try to end the conflict.
Talks scheduled for September collapsed and the UN has since warned that unless the bombing comes to an end, up to 14 million Yemenis would be at risk of starvation.
A report from the Save the Children charity earlier this week claimed that at least 85,000 children under the age of five have been killed as a result of the British and US-backed war.
