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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday denounced air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition against Shiite rebels in Yemen as "criminal acts".

"This move is not acceptable in the region and I would warn that they must stop these criminal acts in Yemen," he said, addressing the Saudi government in a statement on his official website.

"The Saudi government must end as soon as possible these catastrophic crimes," Khamenei said.

The coalition, which includes nine Arab countries, is led by Riyadh with backed by the United States.

It launched an aerial offensive on March 26 to counter the advance of the Huthi rebels linked to Iran and allied with forces loyal to Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The rebels have seized large parts of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa, and forced President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi to flee Aden.

"What the Saudi government is doing in Yemen resembles exactly what the Zionist regime did in Gaza," Khamenei said.

"This is a massacre, a genocide, and internationally prosecutable," he said, denouncing the "massacre of children and the destruction of homes, infrastructure and wealth" of Yemen.

"Certainly, the Saudis will suffer damage," he warned, without elaborating.

Regional rivals Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia are also on opposite sides in the Syrian conflict, with Tehran backing President Bashar al-Assad and Riyadh supporting the opposition.

"We have differences with the Saudis on various political matters, but we have always said that they demonstrated composure and dignity in their foreign relations," Khamenei said.

However, he lashed out at what he called "some inexperienced youths" who have taken charge in the desert kingdom and opting for "savagery over composure".

He also denounced Washington's support for the coalition, saying that "it is in the nature of the United States to support the aggressor".

"Their criminal aircraft have made Yemen's airspace insecure and they don't call this an intervention. In return, they accuse Iran" of intervening.

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HOLOCAUST ALERT

by Alan Hinnrichs and Gillespie Terrace

 The Scotsman

 

The eruption of war in Yemen is the culmination of years of intense intervention by American imperialism.

The United States is backing a war spearheaded by a monarchy in Saudi Arabia that beheads its own subjects and provides â€Ļfinancial support to al-Qaeda and other Sunni extremists, along with the blood-soaked military dictatorship in Egypt that issues mass death sentences and shoots down workers in the street.

What accounts for the American government’s interest in controlling Yemen? In one word: oil.

 

The Bab el-Mandeb strait, which connects the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, is located between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula.

 

Much of the oil exported from the Persian Gulf to Europe, the US and Asia must pass through the narrow strait, making it a key chokepoint for global trade.

Yemen is the latest in a string of military interventions by American imperialism that have wreaked havoc on the Middle East and Central Asia.

Fifteen years after the launching of the “war on terror,” â€Ļchaos and destruction plague the entire region.

The US recklessly and shortsightedly careens from one disastrous adventure to the next.

 

Every catastrophic intervention becomes the justification for the next war.

The one consistent principle is the determination of the American ruling class to assert its interests and impose its domination in every corner of the globe.

This policy of ever-expanding war and foreign intervention is tied to the delusional conception of global hegemony that has guided American foreign policy since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

In its mad drive for global domination, the American â€Ļcorporate and financial aristocracy is pushing the world â€Ļtowards a third world war that threatens humanity with a â€Ļnuclear holocaust.

 

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