Saudi Arabia to Suffer Yemen War Consequences: Velayati

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A senior Iranian official had condemned the Saudi airstrikes on Yemen as "inhumane," saying the Riyadh regime would suffer the consequences of its aggression against the impoverished country.

"No international, Islamic or humanitarian principle approves of the [Saudi] aggression against Yemen, since they [the aggressors] are killing the oppressed and defenseless people," Ali Akbar Velayati, an advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution His Eminence Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei declared.

Moreover, he said Saudi Arabia's continuation of its policies on Yemen would "backfire" on the kingdom as the regime's aggression had claimed the lives of a large number of civilians.

Accordingly, Velayati, who is also the president of the Center for Strategic Research of Iran's Expediency Council, said the Yemeni people would resist the Saudi attacks and eventually emerge victorious in the war against their country.

However, Saudi Arabia's military aggression against Yemen, which was being carried out without a United Nations mandate, had claimed the lives of almost 2,600 people.

Yemen had been under Saudi airstrikes since March 26, in a campaign aimed at restoring power to the fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

A day earlier, Colonel Sharaf Luqman, the spokesman for Yemen's armed forces and popular committees, said that civilians and Yemeni infrastructure had been the target of the Saudi aggression.

Henceforth, a lot of government buildings, schools, shops, gas stations, markets, stadiums and mosques had also been destroyed in the attacks, the spokesman added, describing the Saudi brutalities in Yemen as "war crimes".

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team