Iran condemns Saudi-led deadly airstrike on Yemeni market

TEHRAN, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry condemned the recent airstrike by Saudi-led coalition on Taiz market in Yemen, which claimed scores of lives, IRAN Daily reported on Wednesday.

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said it is "a pity and surprise" that the "hysteric attacks carried out by U.S. deadly weapons (at the disposal of Saudi Arabia)" do not provoke the reactions from human rights advocates.

"During more than a thousand days since the beginning of the devastating war on (Yemen), Saudi Arabia has shown that whenever it faces failure and defeat in battlefields and operational areas, it seeks to take revenge by bombarding the defenseless people and killing innocent women and children," Qasemi said, according to Tasnim news agency.

Warplanes of the Saudi Arabia-led coalition struck a crowded popular market in the southwestern province of Taiz in Yemen on Tuesday, killing over 40 people.

The Saudi-led coalition has intervened in the Yemeni conflict since March 2015 to roll back the Shiite Houthi rebels and support President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who was forced into exile by the Houthis.

The war has killed over 10,000 Yemenis, mostly children, and displaced 3 million others, creating one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. Enditem