Iran warns regional states against following warmongers

Iran has dismissed claims by the United Arab Emirates that the Islamic Republic is arming Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters, urging regional states to remain vigilant against warmongering policies.

“Countries which launched a cruel war against the defenseless Yemeni people, after one year and a half since the beginning of the aggression and [committing] numerous crimes against the Yemeni people, are trying to justify their ignominious defeat through such claims,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Friday, Press TV reported.

He urged countries which cannot endure the most minor consequences of wars not to fall for warmongering policies.

In his recent allegations against Iran, the Emirati Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Bin Mohammad Gargash, claimed that Iran is sending weapons to Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters and this would only prolong the war in Yemen.

He added that Ansarullah's recent targeting of an Emirati military vessel, Swift, is part of systemic aggression and premeditated escalation aimed at undermining any political solution to the Yemeni crisis.

On Saturday, Yemeni forces targeted and destroyed the Emirati military vessel in a rocket attack near the Red Sea port city of Mokha.

The Foreign Ministry’s spokesman on Tuesday also denied claims made by a US official that a missile used by Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters to destroy the Emirati military vessel was made by Iran.

Qassemi said the US should take a look at its own heavy dossier concerning the supply of arms and weapons to those attacking civilians in Yemen instead of putting the blame on others.

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