{"id":2282,"date":"2017-12-16T06:59:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T07:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/zarif-us-anti-iran-claim-aims-to-whitewash-war-crimes-in-mideast\/"},"modified":"2017-12-16T06:59:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T07:59:27","slug":"zarif-us-anti-iran-claim-aims-to-whitewash-war-crimes-in-mideast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/zarif-us-anti-iran-claim-aims-to-whitewash-war-crimes-in-mideast\/","title":{"rendered":"Zarif: US anti-Iran claim aims to whitewash war crimes in Mideast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\u00a0Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif once again dismissed a “baseless” US allegation that Tehran supplies missiles to Yemen, saying it is an attempt by Washington to whitewash its war crimes in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

\n\t“In an attempt to cover up its presence in the region and measures which can mostly amount to war crimes, the US levels baseless allegations against the Islamic Republic of Iran by showing a piece of iron,” Zarif told reporters on Saturday, Press TV wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tUS Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley went on live television Thursday to display debris purportedly from a ballistic missile that had been fired from Yemen at an airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn November 4, a missile fired from Yemen targeted King Khalid International Airport near Riyadh, reaching the Saudi capital for the first time.<\/p>\n

\n\tZarif said such claims aimed to deflect attention from US complicity in the crimes committed in the Middle East, particularly in Yemen, and from US President Donald Trump’s “very dangerous move” to recognize Beit-ul-Moqaddas as Israel\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn December 6, the US president defied global warnings and said Washington formally recognized Beit-ul-Moqaddas as the capital of Israel and would begin the process of moving its embassy to the occupied city, breaking with decades of American policy.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump’s declaration has sent shock waves throughout the Muslim world, and even prompted warnings from Washington\u2019s allies in the West that it would bring more chaos to the region.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe top Iranian diplomat further said the US made such allegations against Iran while it provided Saudi Arabia with cluster bombs that kill Yemeni civilians, and supported the Saudi regime’s blockade on the impoverished country.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat is clear, he emphasized, is that American bombs are being dropped on the Yemeni people and “this is a fact that no one can conceal.”<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso on Friday, Zarif said the United States was complicit in Saudi war crimes in Yemen.<\/p>\n

\n\t“No amount of alternative facts or alternative evidence covers up US complicity in war crimes,” Zarif said in a post on his official Twitter account.<\/p>\n

\n\tIranian Ambassador to the UN Gholamali Khoshroo also rejected his American counterpart\u2019s claims and said the \u201cshow\u201d Haley put up earlier in the day was merely meant to cover up Washington\u2019s own supply of lethal weapons to the Saudi regime, which have resulted in the deaths of Yemeni women and children.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIran wants peace, dialogue and an immediate cease-fire and a halt to bombardments\u201d against Yemen, said the senior diplomat, emphasizing that the US \u201cmust, above all, end its arms sales to Saudi Arabia.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesman for the UN secretary general, also doubted the Saudi and American claims, saying even the UN had been unable to confirm the origin of the missiles.<\/p>\n

\n\t“There’s no conclusive evidence about the provenance of those missiles,” he told reporters on Thursday, quoting an upcoming UN resolution in this regard.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFrance stance<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tFrance reacted cautiously on Friday to US \u201cevidence\u201d which allegedly proved Iran supplied missiles to Yemen, saying it was still studying information at its disposal and the United Nations had yet to draw any conclusions.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked whether Paris believed that \u201cevidence\u201d was irrefutable, Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Alexandre Giorgini declined to respond directly, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

\n\t“The United Nations secretariat has not, at this stage, drawn any conclusions. France continues to examine the information at its disposal,” he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tSaudi Arabia and its allies launched the war on Yemen in March 2015 in a bid to crush the Houthi movement and reinstate the former Riyadh-friendly regime, but they have achieved neither of their goals.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Saudi-led war, which has been accompanied by a naval and aerial blockade on Yemen, has so far killed over 12,000 people and led to a humanitarian crisis as well as a deadly cholera outbreak.<\/p>\n

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