Interim Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani has expressed Iran’s solidarity with the Yemeni people and resistance in the face of Israel’s crimes against the impoverished country.

Bagheri Kani made the remarks on Monday during a telephone conversation with Mohammed Abdul-Salam, spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarullah popular resistance movement.

He condemned Israel’s Saturday airstrike on civilian facilities in the Red Sea port of al-Hudaydah that killed six Yemenis and left 83 others injured, many of them with severe burns.

Bagheri Kani said that the “historic” support of the Yemeni nation and resistance fighters for the oppressed Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is a “source of pride for the Muslim Ummah.”

The “exemplary” resilience of the people of Gaza, Yemen’s pro-Palestinian initiative, and Iran’s April retaliatory operation against Israel are the three factors that have resulted in the occupying regime’s “strategic failure” during its ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, the top diplomat added.

The Yemeni forces have been targeting the occupied Palestinian territories as well as Israeli ships and vessels affiliated with it since October 7, when the regime in Tel Aviv began its brutal Gaza onslaught, killing over 39,000 Palestinians.

They have vowed to keep up their operations as long as the regime sustains the offensive against Gaza and a simultaneous siege that it has been enforcing against the Palestinian territory.

On April 13-14, Iran fired more than 300 drones and missiles at military bases in the Israeli-occupied territories in an operation dubbed True Promise. It came less than two weeks after Israel killed seven military advisors of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in a terrorist strike on the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital city of Damascus.

Abdul-Salam, for his part, thanked Tehran for expressing solidarity with Yemen in the wake of the Hudaydah assault, saying the Israeli attack shows the usurping entity’ “desperate failure and helplessness.”

The Yemeni official further noted that the issue of Palestine is the issue of the entire Muslim Ummah.

He also extended his appreciation to the Islamic Republic for standing by the Palestinians and providing political and spiritual support for the Yemenis in different fields, including their fight against the Zionists.

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