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Monday, November 16, 2009
TEHRAN: Ali Larijani, the speaker of Iran’s parliament, on Sunday accused Tehran’s arch-foe Washington of masterminding Saudi Arabia’s bombing of Yemeni rebels, parliament’s website reported.
“The deplorable events in the Islamic nation of Yemen which have intensified over the past two weeks and the Saudi interference in Yemen through repeated bombings by warplanes is astonishing,” Larijani was quoted as telling deputies.
He accused the United States of being behind the bombing, saying: “Reports indicated that the government of the United States is cooperating in the oppressive measures.”
Larijani’s comments come less than a week after Sanaa slammed Iranian “interference” in its affairs after Tehran criticised regional intervention in Yemen’s war with rebels in a barely veiled allusion to Saudi Arabia.
Yemeni forces launched “Operation Scorched Earth” against the Zaidi insurgents, also known as Huthis, in the north of the country on August 11.
“In response to the remarks of (Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr) Mottaki, we affirm that Yemen categorically rejects any interference in its internal affairs by any party whatsoever,” the official Saba news agency quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying.
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