The Iranian foreign ministry summoned the Saudi charge d’affaires in Tehran on Thursday to protest against the Arab country’s continued blocking of Iran’s cargo planes carrying humanitarian and medical aid to Yemen.
The Iranian foreign ministry summoned the Saudi charge d'affaires in Tehran on Thursday to protest against the Arab country's continued blocking of Iran's cargo planes carrying humanitarian and medical aid to Yemen.
During the meeting, an Iranian foreign ministry official described the Saudi fighter jets' move as unacceptable and against the human standards and the international aviation laws, and called for an immediate halt to the Saudi aggression against Yemen which started on March 26.
The diplomat underlined that Tehran will continue its efforts to send humanitarian aids to the innocent Yemeni people and transfer the wounded to the Iranian hospitals, Fars news agency reported.
Earlier this week the Saudi warplanes prevented the cargo planes of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), carrying pharmaceutical aids, from landing in Sana'a International Airport.
Sources in the Yemeni capital said the Saudi warplanes targeted the airport seven times to make the Iranian plane avoid landing and return to Iran.
The air strikes also set fire to an aircraft belonging to the al-Saeeda airlines.
The sources said the cargo plane was due to take humanitarian aids to Yemen and take several civilians, who were critically wounded in the recent Saudi bombings, back to Tehran to receive specialized medical treatment.
Yemen has been since March 26 under brutal aggression by Saudi-US coalition. Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia.
On April 21, Saudi Arabia declared the end of the aggression, dubbed “Decisive Strom,” and the start of another campaign called “Restoring Hope.” The Saudi-led warplanes are still conducting airstrikes on several areas across Yemen.
Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
