Saudi Arabia Not Allowed to Inspect Iran’s Aid Ship to Yemen

(FNA)- A senior Iranian lawmaker underlined that no other country, including Saudi Arabia, is allowed to inspect Iran's cargo ship carrying the country's humanitarian aid to Yemen.

"The UN has announced that Saudi Arabia and coalition member-states are not allowed to  block or inspect the (Iranian cargo) ship carrying humanitarian aid to Yemen," Chairman of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi told FNA on Sunday.

He reiterated that Iran has coordinated the berthing of its cargo ship in the Yemeni port city of al-Hudayda with the UN.

Boroujerdi warned Saudi Arabia that Iran will give a crushing response to any hostile attempt to prevent the Iranian vessel's berthing and air delivery to Yemen.

In relevant remarks on Friday, Rapporteur of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Seyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini underlined that no other country is allowed to inspect Iran's aid cargo ship heading towards Yemen.

"We send Iran's relief aid ship to Yemen and will not allow any foreign power to inspect or stop it," Naqavi Hosseini said.

He, meantime, rejected the allegations that Iran interferes in Yemen's internal affairs, and said, "The enemies know that if we had intended to interfere in Yemen the Al Saud regime would have vanished in the first week" (of their aggression against Yemen).

On Thursday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian underlined that Tehran has coordinated dispatch of its aid deliveries to Yemen with the United Nations.

"We have conducted the needed coordination with the UN's concerned officials for the berthing of our country's ship carrying humanitarian aid to Yemen… ," Amir Abdollahian told FNA.

He noted that the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) is also sending medicine and foodstuff in a cargo plane through Oman and Djibouti.

The Iranian cargo ship carrying humanitarian aid to Yemen arrived in the Gulf of Aden earlier today.

The Iranian cargo ship will berth in the port city of al-Hudayda in Southern Yemen in the Red Sea after passing through Bab al-Mandeb strait.

The ship carrying 2,500 tons of Iran's aid comprising 2,400 tons of foodstuff and 100 tons of medicine as well as a 12-member medical team left Southern Iran for Yemen last Monday.

A large number of Yemeni people are waiting on the coasts of Hudayda to welcome the Iranian cargo ship.

The residents of al-Hudayda have gathered on the coasts since a few days ago to receive Iran's medical and food aid.

The people of Hudayda have called on residents of other Yemeni provinces to stage rallies in support of Iran's aid ship to Yemen and condemning Saudi Arabia and its hostile policies towards their country.