Iran leaders blast Saudi over Yemen, stress support for Assad

[WorldNews]

View attachment 21689​

A senior Iranian official branded Saudi Arabia's King Salman a traitor to Islam on Thursday and equated the Gulf state's military assault on Iranian-allied fighters in Yemen with Israeli actions against Palestinians. Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of Iran's national security and foreign policy committee, was speaking a day after Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the kingdom of "crimes" and the deputy head of Iran's military warned Riyadh of "war" if it attacked an Iran aid ship heading toward Yemen. "The Saudis made a huge mistake in Yemen and the impacts of the crimes they have committed will certainly backfire on them,” Khamenei told visiting Iraqi President Fouad Massoum on Wednesday, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Continue reading...