WANA (Jul 17) – The spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs dismissed recent U.S. allegations regarding Iranian arms shipments to Yemen as unfounded, describing them as part of a broader media campaign aimed at vilifying the Islamic Republic.

 

Esmail Baghaei, speaking on Thursday night, directly blamed the United States for fueling conflict and enabling the war crimes of the Israeli regime in the occupied Palestinian territories and across the region.

 

Baghaei characterized the recurring U.S. accusations as a means to justify its military presence in the Middle East and to provide cover for continued destabilizing actions by both the United States and Israel.

 

“In a situation where the Zionist regime, armed with deadly American weapons and enjoying full political and media support from Washington, intensifies its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the West Bank — while simultaneously violating the sovereignty of Syria and Lebanon through repeated military aggression — the U.S. claim of intercepting an Iranian military shipment to Yemen is nothing but a deceptive attempt to divert public attention from the core issue in the region: the ongoing crimes of the Zionist regime and the destructive, insecurity-inducing interventions of the United States,” he said.

An anti-Israel billboard is displayed, which reads “All targets are available, for now with Yemeni missiles” in Persian in a street in Tehran, Iran, May 5, 2025. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency)