Iranian Worshippers Condemn Saudi-led Aggression, Killing of Innocent Yemenis
Carrying photos depicting the massacres committed in Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition, the demonstrators called on international organizations to confront these atrocities.
It came as Saudi Arabia’s air campaign against Yemen continued on Friday. The air raids began on March 26 in a bid to restore power to the fugitive president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
On March 25, the embattled president fled the southern city of Aden, where he had sought to set up a rival power base, to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, after Ansarullah revolutionaries advanced on Aden.
The Ansarullah fighters took control of the Yemeni capital in September 2014 and are currently moving southward. The revolutionaries said Hadi’s government was incapable of properly running the affairs of the country and containing the growing wave of corruption and terror.
Meanwhile, the United Nations said at least 519 people, including women and children, have so far lost their lives in two weeks of turmoil in the country.
UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos said in a statement on Thursday that 1,700 people have been also wounded during clashes between rival groups in Yemen as well as the Saudi airstrikes. The UN official added that 90 children were among the victims of the violence.
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