The Iranian Foreign Ministry this Sunday accused the United States and the United Kingdom of fomenting chaos in the Middle East following recent bombings in Yemen, an action that Tehran described as a violation of the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
“The United States and the United Kingdom, through their military actions, are fomenting chaos, disorder, insecurity and instability in the region with the aim of bringing calm to this criminal regime (Israel) accused of genocide against the Palestinians,” he said in a statement from Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Naser Kananí.
The diplomat called last night’s joint attacks by Washington and London – supported by Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and New Zealand – a “repeated violation of Yemen’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and a blatant violation of international law.”
Kananí considered that these attacks in the region “contradict Washington and London’s repeated claims that they do not want war and conflict to spread in the region” as a result of Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip, in which more than 27,000 people were killed life.
Yesterday’s strikes are the third joint operation by the US and Britain since both countries first attacked Yemen on January 12, although Washington alone has carried out several bombings against Houthi missile and drone launch sites in recent weeks.
The new campaign against Yemen comes a day after the US bombed positions of pro-Iranian militias in Iraq and Syria. According to the Iraqi government and the NGO Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 45 people died in both countries.
Iran called these attacks “a strategic mistake by the US government” and warned that they would only increase tensions in the Middle East region.
Tehran leads the so-called Axis of Resistance, a loose alliance made up of militant organizations such as Hezbollah, the Houthi rebels, the Islamist movement Hamas, Islamic Jihad and militias in Iraq, among others.