While referring to the ongoing ‘inhumane crimes' in Yemen during the past two months, President of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seyed Alireza Marandi, drew the UN attention to the actual depth of these crimes that has not been shown due to extreme censorship.
He noted the Saudi regime’s engagement in bombing cities and destroying the infrastructure including hospitals, schools and relief facilities—as well as killing women, children, and innocent civilians; “the injured and those left homeless are deprived of basic medical and health provision and are without safe places in which to seek shelter from the ongoing Saudi military campaign. Even international aid organizations have been prevented from helping civilian casualties; a plane carrying Red Crescent medical aid for injured children and women was forced to cancel its humanitarian missions as Saudi air forces bombed the airport,” he said in the letter.
He criticized the international community for remaining silent and failing to condemn the Saudi military attack against a sovereign nation, saying “it is wholly disappointing that the United Nations, a body that was established to resolve international conflict, is indifferent to the suffering of the people of Yemen.”
Calling the actions of the Saudi Regime as nothing short of ‘genocide’ which will be remembered in history as such, Marandi also stressed that this episode will also be remembered as a ‘failure’ of the United Nations through its silence and inaction.
He called on the UN Secretary General to take immediate and effective action against the Saudi Regime to prevent further loss of life and injury to civilians and destruction of civil infrastructure.
He also maintained that the Iranian medical community is ready to help and assist the oppressed people of Yemen in any way possible.
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