In a meeting in Tehran on delivery of humanitarian relief to crisis-hit countries of the Middle East i.e. Iraq, Syria and Yemen, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian conferred with the Regional Director of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Robert Mardini.
During the meeting, Amir-Abdollahian lamented that miscalculations and illegal measures of some countries involved in the regional turbulence, have led to deterioration of situation in the Middle East resulting into massacre of civilian innocents and sometimes personnel of humanitarian organizations.
The Iranian senior diplomat urged immediate action of the global community in providing regular and steady help to impoverished war stricken people of Yemen, to avoid worsening humanitarian catastrophe.
The Red Cross official for his part recounted the latest measures taken by his organization in countries like Syria and Iraq. "I am afraid to describe the situation in Yemen as cataclysmic but we have not stopped our efforts in the country despite the death of some of our staff in the past weeks," said Mardini.
The ICRC director for the Middle East called aiding in war condition difficult and invited the warring parts in Yemen to halt the fire in order to facilitate helps to poor civilians.
Hailing Iranians for their help to people of Iraq and Syria, Mardini reassured that ICRC in the face of all difficulties will endeavor to hand out the aids dispatched by Iranian Red Crescent Society among people of Yemen.
On March 26, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies began to launch deadly air strikes against Yemen in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
According to reports, the Saudi airstrikes have claimed the lives of nearly 4,500 Yemeni people so far while nearly 7000 others have been wounded.
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