Saudi playing blame game to cover up strategic mistakes: Iran

Rasa - Iran has dismissed Saudi Arabia's anti-Tehran claims as part of a blame game policy pursued by the Riyadh regime to cover up its “strategic blunders” in the region and the world.

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Date: 31 August 2016 - 23:42

RNA - Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Wednesday criticized Saudi officials for seeking to implicate other countries in their crimes.

Saudi officials, who are stuck in "a bloody quagmire in Yemen, Syria and Iraq" as a result of their “strategic mistakes”, had better rectify their approach instead of repeating their “threadbare allegations” against others, Qassemi added.

Speaking to Reuters in Beijing, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir accused Iran of seeking to sow unrest in the region. The Saudi official also alleged that Iran was smuggling weapons to a number of regional Arab countries.

"Despite Saudi Arabia's constant efforts to cover up realities such as its involvement in the world's most heinous terrorist attacks and killing children in Yemen by spending petrodollars, the world has realized today that the source of the tension is the Saudi regime and the fake sect of Wahhabism, which is the basis of the country’s political structure,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry official said.

Saudi Arabia has been pounding Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world, almost on a daily basis since March 2015, to reinstate the country’s resigned president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, and undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement.

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator said in a press conference in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a on Tuesday that the death toll from the 18-month Saudi war against Yemen had increased to nearly 10,000.

Jamie McGoldrick added that the death toll was based on official records provided by medical facilities in Yemen.

He said that the figure might be even higher as some areas in Yemen lack medical premises.

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