The Under Secretary General of the Iranian Red Crescent Society Mohammad-Shahaboddin Mohammadi-Araghi announced that the second relief cargo ship of Iran’s Red Crescent Society will set sail next week after getting loaded of 12k tons of humanitarian aids in two Iranian port cities of Bandar Abbas and Bandar Imam Khomeini.
Araghi also added that the former aid cargo of Iran’s Red Crescent earlier unloaded in Djibouti, is set to be loaded on 'Mona' cargo ship to get to Yemeni port of Hudaydah on June 5.
Riyadh has blocked earlier Iranian aid deliveries to Yemen. Recently, it prevented two Iranian civilian planes from delivering medical aid and foodstuff to the impoverished people of the Arab country.
Before Saudi blockade on humanitarian aids, Tehran had previously dispatched 50 tons of medical aid and foodstuff to Sanaa.
Last Wednesday, UN aid chief Valerie Amos met Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran to discuss speeding up relief to Yemen.
Earlier this month, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and medical charity group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), aka Doctors Without Borders, expressed 'extreme' concern about the Saudi airstrikes on Yemen’s lifelines and its obstruction of aid deliveries to the impoverished nation.
Last Friday UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen Johannes Van der Klaauw said that over 1,600 people have been killed and more than 6,200 injured in Yemen since conflict intensified there in late March. He added that some 450,000 people have been displaced as a result of the continuing violence.