Iran's UN mission has
categorically dismissed as "unfounded" US Ambassador Nikki Haley's claim
that a missile fired at Saudi Arabia from Yemen last month was supplied
by the Islamic Republic.
In a statement released on Thursday, the mission denounced the US
allegations as "irresponsible, provocative and destructive," saying
"this purported evidence ... is as much fabricated as the one presented
on some other occasions earlier."
"These accusations seek also to cover up for the Saudi war crimes in
Yemen, with the US complicity, and divert international and regional
attention from the stalemate war of aggression against the Yemenis that
has so far killed more than 10,000 civilians, displaced three million,
crippled Yemen's infrastructure and health system and pushed the country
to the brink of the largest famine the world has seen for decades, as
the UN has warned," the statement read.
It went on to accuse the US government of being "constantly at work to
deceive the public into believing the cases they put together" to
advance its agenda.
"While Iran has not supplied Yemen with missiles, these hyperboles
are also to serve other US agendas in the Middle East, including
covering up for its adventurist acts in the region and its unbridled
support for the Israeli regime," the statement read.
It also stressed "the Yemenis' right to self-defense" and reiterated
that the conflict in the impoverished country had no military solution.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also took to twitter to
compare Haley’s allegations against Iran to those of former US secretary
of defense, Colin Powell, who alleged in 2003 that former Iraqi
dictator, Saddam Hussein, was hiding weapons of mass destruction in
order to make a case for attacking the country.
Source:Mehrnews