Iran rules out baseless claim on delivering arms to Yemen
Nasser Kanani, Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dismissed an unfounded allegation made by Britain’s government that the British forces confiscated an Iranian shipment of weapons destined for the Yemeni people.
Reacting to a claim made by the British government’s official website that the British armed forces seized a shipment of Iranian arms in January 2022, Kanani emphasized on Friday morning that such an allegation is baseless and outdated.
The diplomat said that Britain sells advanced weapons to self-proclaimed military coalition to massacre defenseless Yemeni people; so, Britain is culprit in the war on aggression against Yemen; thus, it is not in a position to raise such unfounded charges against the Islamic Republic and attempt to portray a humanitarian face of itself.
According to news and statistics reported by British media outlets, the country sold about 8 billion pounds of advanced weapons, including bombs, air-to-surface missiles, precision-guided munition and fighter jets to the anti-Yemen coalition since the onset of the military aggression, the spokesman said, noting that the numbers will multiply considering specific permissions allocated to arms producers in the European country.
Kanani went on to say that Britain sold the weapons to the Saudi-led coalition, while the British authorities are well aware that the aggressors target defenseless people at schools, hospitals, wedding parties and they even pound foodstuff warehouses.
Undoubtedly, the British government’s continuation of exporting arms to the coalition is one of the reasons why the inhuman conflict goes on; therefore, Britain does not have any moral competence to make claims against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Steve Bell, a British analyst, said that the British government, as UN pen-holder on Yemen, has absolutely failed to progress peace in Yemen, and instead it has happily followed US foreign policy, while selling over £22 billion of military equipment to the Coalition.
Since the announcement of the first ceasefire, neither of the Houses of Parliament has found the time to debate Yemen, he noted.
It is vital the anti-war and anti-imperialist movement in Britain does what it can to highlight the need for a lasting peace in Yemen, the political expert said, adding that this is best done by demanding an end to all British military and political support for the Coalition’s war.
Bell also noted that the essential problem about the Yemeni crisis is that the Coalition, and the US government, are not yet prepared to accept that Ansarallah will have a substantial role in Yemen’s future.