Iran offers to treat wounded from Saudi attack in Yemen

Iran yesterday offered to evacuate those wounded in the Saudi airstrike that killed 140 people and injured at least 525 people on Saturday.

The airstrike was aimed at a funeral in the capital city Sana’a, which has sparked outrage and debate in the international community over arms sells to Saudi. It then instigated revenge attacks from Houthi and Saleh forces in Taiz, along with ballistic missiles being aimed at Saudi Arabia.

Yemeni Foreign Minister Javad Zarif expressed his “shock” at the Saudi attack and wrote a letter to UN General Secretary Ban Ki Moon requesting that the UN assists the Iranian Red Crescent in evacuating the wounded from Sana’a to Iran.

Yemen has been locked in a bitter battle between Shia Houthi fighters allied with forces loyal to ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh and government forces led by President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, along with local tribes and resistance forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition’s airstrikes.

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