TEHRAN – Tehran is determined to make every effort to provide the people of Yemen with humanitarian aid despite Riyadh’s moves to block them, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abollahian has stressed.

“Yemen today is not like Gaza that could be put under siege,” Amir-Abdollahian said in a Tuesday interview with al-Manar TV, adding Tehran “would never allow a blockade of the country [Yemen].”

Saudi Arabia bombarded the runway of Sana’a airport on April 28 to prevent an Iranian plane carrying aid cargos from landing in the Yemeni capital.

Amir-Abollahian said Yemen’s security is the security of Iran and the entire region, and deplored Riyadh over attacking an Islamic country.

Riyadh launched its military aggression against Yemen on March 26 - without a United Nations mandate - in a bid to undermine the Ansarullah revolutionaries and to restore power to the country’s fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.

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