Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani criticized on Wednesday the Saudi regime for their violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by waging war on Yemen.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani criticized on Wednesday the Saudi regime for their violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by waging war on Yemen, state-run Mehr news agency reported.

Addressing Iranian officials and the ambassadors of Islamic countries to Tehran during a conference held on Wednesday to mark the Islamic Human Rights and Human Dignity Day, Speaker Larijani lashed out at Saudi Arabia for violating the tenets of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR).

“The same people who participated in drafting the Declaration on Human Rights of Islam in Cairo, have now launched a military attack that violates all human rights,” said Larijani, referring to Saudi Arabia’s military aggression against Yemen.

He pointed to Saudi’s violation of Article 3 of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) that stresses the safety of women and children lives during war, adding Saudi airstrikes have repeatedly bombed houses, mosques and bazaars in Yemen, killing women and children in the process.

He further touched upon the atrocities committed by the Zionist entity in Palestine, the recent one of which was the 'brutal assassination' of the Palestinian infant that was burnt to death after Jewish settlers set fire to homes in the occupied West Bank.

He condemned the United States for taking pride in supporting an ‘evil and murderous’ regime and calling its security as its own; “the Zionist regime is founded on opposition to humanity; how is that the Americans who are the so-called flag bearers of new civilization are now proud of backing this regime?”

Larijani then leveled criticism against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which “does not include all natural rights and only respects some of them.”

A ceremony to mark the Islamic Human Rights and Human Dignity Day opened in the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday with Iranian officials as well as the ambassadors of Islamic countries to Tehran in attendance.

The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI) is a declaration of the member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference adopted in Cairo, Egypt, in 1990 and signed by 45 states so far.