Iran Condemns Israeli Attacks on Yemen, Warns of Expansion of War in Region
The Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s earlier deadly attacks against western Yemen, warning that such aggression risks exacerbating the already dire situation in the region.
Spokesman Nasser Kan’ani made the remarks on Saturday, hours after Israeli warplanes targeted civilian buildings, oil facilities, and a power station in the Yemeni province of al-Hodeida, causing a number of casualties.
The aggression bespeaks the child-killing Israeli regime’s aggressive nature, he said, noting that such dangerous adventurism on the part of Tel Aviv could escalate tensions and fuel the flames of war in the region.
Brushing off official accounts that the airstrikes had targeted civilian structures, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari alleged that the regime’s aircraft had struck “military targets” in al-Hodeida.
He also said the strikes had come in response to the attacks that the Yemeni Armed Forces had been carrying out against the occupied Palestinian territories over the past months.
The forces have been targeting the territories as well as Israeli ships and vessels affiliated with the occupying regime since October 7, when Tel Aviv began a genocidal war against the Gaza Strip. They have vowed to keep up their operations as long as the regime sustains the war and a simultaneous siege that it has been enforcing against the Palestinian territory.
Kan’ani said by attacking Yemen, the regime was seeking to exact a toll on the oppressed but strong Yemeni people for their honorable support for the innocent Palestinian civilians.
He considered perpetuation of the Israeli massacres and siege in Gaza to be the root cause of current regional tensions, asserting the region would not get to experience calm again as long as the regime continued its violations against the coastal sliver.
The spokesman concluded his remarks by saying that the Zionist regime and its supporters, including the United States, were directly responsible for the dangerous and unpredictable repercussions that could follow perpetuation of violations against Gaza and adventuristic attacks on Yemen.
Source: Press TV