Iran Says : We are Ready to Help End Yemen war

Saudi Arabia rejected Tehran’s offers to facilitate a political solution to the crisis in Yemen, says Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

“At the beginning of the crisis in Yemen in 2013, I wrote a letter to former Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al Faysal with the aim of ending the crisis with the aid of Iran and Saudi Arabia. But they denied, saying that the Arab world’s affairs do not concern Tehran,” said Zarif on Sunday during an interview with the BBC’s Arabic language service

Zarif noted that the Saudis’ rejection was based on the false assumption that the war in Yemen would be ended soon

Iran’s foreign minister added that the finding a solution to the crisis was could only be achieved via dialogue and negotiations among Yemenis, and that Iran was always prepared to help solve the ongoing crisis in the impoverished country