Tehran Friday prayer leader condemns Saudi regime for massacre of civilians in Yemen

Rasa – Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers leader Hujjat al-Islam Seddiqi condemned the Saudi regime for continuing the slaughtering of the civilians in Yemen.

News ID: 422972

Date: 26 August 2016 - 22:18

RNA – Addressing a large and fervent congregation of the people on Tehran University campus on Friday, Hujjat al-Islam Kazem Seddiqi said, “We are deeply concerned about deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Yemen caused by the Saudi crimes against humanity and aggression against the sovereign state of Yemen as well as bombardment of residential areas in Yemen.”

He strongly blasted the Saudi regime for its continued massacre of the people of Yemen, and asked, “Which human rights body approves of the Saudi regime’s behavior?”

The killing of the Yemeni civilians continues as the Yemeni army and Ansarullah fighters have pushed the Saudi-led forces back into Saudi Arabia, and managed to seize back several strategic military positions in the kingdom near the border with Yemen.

The Yemeni forces took control of three Saudi military bases in al-Tal’a, Buqta and Najran as well as a region in al-Buq’a near the Saudi-Yemeni border crossing in heavy clashes with the Saudi troops.

Ansarullah has announced that it will continue its advances on Saudi soil despite the repeated airstrikes by the Saudi fighter jets.

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