Iran requested help from the United Nations to send a plane to Yemen to evacuate the wounded from a deadly airstrike on a funeral ceremony. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday expressed “shock and indignation” over the air strikes that killed more than 140 mourners and injured over 525 on Saturday. The Iran-backed Huthi rebels blamed the Saudi-led coalition for the attack, one of the deadliest since it launched a military campaign against the Shia insurgents in 2015.
“Not only Saudi Arabia, but also those who have supported the aggression by the Saudi-led coalition against Yemeni people should be held accountable for the war crimes perpetrated in Yemen over the past year and a half,” Zarif wrote in a letter to UN Secretary.