Qassemi blasted the US and Britain for their unconstructive role in the UN
Security Council in the past three years and their attempts to legitimize the
aggressors in the Yemen war, stressing the need for ending the Saudi-led
aggression against the poor Arab country.
"All those who play a destructive role by selling modern weapons, enlarging the
arsenals of aggressive countries and intensifying the crisis and instability in
the region have the responsibility to defend and protect the defenseless Yemeni
women and children who are facing a humanitarian crisis that has been brought
about by devastating war and sanctions imposed on the country," he underlined.
Qassemi also referred to the US, Britain and France's failure in their attempts
at the Monday meeting of the UN Security Council to condemn Iran for alleged
supply of missiles to Yemen, and said they should account for the crimes
committed against the oppressed Yemeni people as main supporters of the
aggressors and suppliers of deadly arms to them.
His remarks came after Russia vetoed a UNSC resolution based on a UN report
condemning Iran for what it called as violating an arms embargo by sending
weapons to Yemen.
Backed by the United States and France, the British-drafted resolution was
supported with 11 votes in favor on Monday, before Russia used its veto and
other member states abstained from voting.
The US had repeatedly called for the imposition of a renewed embargo on Iran,
claiming it was sending Iranian manufactured missiles to Yemen.
It also claimed that these missiles were used to launch an attack on neighboring
Saudi Arabia - which along with several Sunni Arab countries – has launched a
war against its poor neighbor since 2015.
In relevant remarks earlier today, Iranian Ambassador to London Hamid
Baeidinejad underlined that Washington experienced a complete failure in the
Monday meeting of the UN Security Council which was due to condemn Iran for the
alleged supply of missiles to Yemen, adding that even the western states didn’t
fully support the US.
"In the resolution on Yemen, the US didn’t pay any attention to Yemen (at all)
and it pursued three goals: to declare Iran as a state that has breached
sanctions against Yemen, to link the Yemen resolution and implementation of
Resolution 2231 in connection with missile issues and bring up Iran's missiles
(power) issue on the UNSC agenda, and finally, to pave the ground for the
imposition of new UNSC sanctions against Iran by introducing Iran as a
violator," Baeidinejad wrote on his Telegram account.
He noted that the US didn’t even have the full support of the western countries.
So the text underwent many changes and its condemnations changed into concerns,
he added.
"But these changes were not so much to meet Russia's concerns and therefore, the
resolution was vetoed and the US and Nikki Haley (the US ambassador to the UN),
in person, faced a complete fiasco," Baeidinejad said.
At least 15,700 people have been killed since the onset of Saudi Arabia’s
military campaign against Yemen in 2015. Much of the country's infrastructure,
including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to
the war.
The Saudi-led war has also triggered a deadly cholera epidemic across Yemen.
According to the World Health Organization’s latest tally, the cholera outbreak
has killed 2,167 people since the end of April 2017 and is suspected to have
infected 841,906
Source: Fars News Agency