President Rouhani raps ‘worn-out’ Arab League
Yesterday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani slammed the Arab League’s double standards in addressing regional issues, particularly its silence on the Saudi crimes during its brutal war against Yemen.
Rouhani called the pan-arab bloc “old, worn-out, exhausted and ineffective,” saying the body convened in Cairo to express regret over a missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi fighters in response to the Saudi-led massive campaign of airstrikes, Press TV wrote.
On Sunday, Arab League foreign ministers held an extraordinary general meeting in the Egyptian capital at the request of Saudi Arabia. At the end of the meeting, the participants issued a statement accusing Iran of interfering in the internal affairs of the countries in the region and pursuing aggressive policies against Arab states.
The Iranian president lashed out at the Arab leaders for their failure to take action when Takfiri terrorists were committing crimes in Iraq and Syria.
He blasted the organization for not standing behind Lebanon when the country was fighting terrorist groups in the town of Arsal on the Syrian border.
Rouhani accused the bloc of turning a blind eye to the ongoing Israeli aggression against Palestinians.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Monday dismissed the resolution as “worthless” and urged Saudi Arabia to “immediately end its savage aggression” against the Yemeni Arab people so that civilians, particularly women and children, would no longer be affected by the “flames of their spite.”