News - Middle East: Iran has roundly dismissed Western allegations of smuggling weapons and ammunition to Yemen, stressing that arms exporters and all those who sponsor the siege against the Yemeni nation are in position to comment on the ongoing crisis in the impoverished country.

Spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Nasser Kan’ani in a statement on Thursday rejected the claims that French naval forces in January had seized thousands of Iranian-supplied weapons and ammunition headed to Yemen as politically-motivated and meant to misinform the world public opinion.

“The countries that are overtly involved in and directly responsible for the inhumane blockade of Yemeni people though arms sale and providing intelligence to the countries waging a military campaign against the country are in position to level such accusations against others,” Kan’ani stated.

“Instead of persisting in playing blame game and abdicating their responsibilities in imposing the war against the defenseless and oppressed Yemeni people, such states had better put an end to their opportunistic and profit-seeking approach in the brutal onslaught as soon as possible,” the senior Iranian diplomat pointed out.