Yemen to turn into quagmire for aggressors: Rafsanjani
A senior Iranian official has criticized the Saudi military campaign against Yemen as a serious and strategic mistake, saying Yemen will turn into a quagmire for the aggressors.
“Yemen will turn into a quagmire, into which the aggressors will be bogged down,” Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Saturday.
He said the crisis in Yemen, the Saudi military aggression against the Arab country as well as the fueling of sectarian conflicts between the Sunnis and Shias could serve as a prelude to more wars and bloodshed in the region, adding that the tensions in Yemen have nothing to do with sectarian issues and are rooted in the history of the Arab country.
“Unfortunately, the novice officials in Saudi Arabia have made a flagrant miscalculation as well as erroneous political and military analyses with respect to the situation in Yemen,” Rafsanjani said.
Rafsanjani noted that Saudi Arabia has launched a “destructive” military campaign against Yemen without taking into account the repercussions of the move. The senior Iranian official urged an immediate end to the war against the impoverished country, calling on international organizations and impartial countries to intervene and put an end to the war in Yemen through negotiations.
He also expressed Iran’s readiness to cooperate with the international community to settle the conflict in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia’s military aggression against Yemen started on March 26, without a UN mandate, in a bid to restore power to the fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
According to sources close to the ruling Ansarullah movement, at least a thousand people, including 200 children, have been killed in Yemen since the beginning of Saudi aggression.
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