Iran says US evidence on Yemen missiles is ‘fabricated’

Iran dismisses evidence presented by US Ambassador Nikki Haley that it had supplied Yemen’s rebels with a missile fired at Saudi Arabia as “fabricated,” saying the accusations are baseless.

“This purported evidence, put on public display today, is as much fabricated as the one presented on some other occasions earlier,” says Alireza Miryousefi, spokesman at Iran’s mission to the United Nations.

Haley told a news conference in Washington that a missile fired on November 4 by the Houthi rebels that was intercepted near Riyadh airport was Iranian-made.

Iran “categorically” rejects the accusation “as unfounded and, at the same time, irresponsible, provocative and destructive,” Miryousefi says in a statement.

“The US government has an agenda and is constantly at work to deceive the public into believing the cases they put together to advance it,” he adds.

The Iranian mission says the accusations leveled by Haley were intended to divert attention from the devastating war in Yemen being led by Saudi Arabia, a key US ally.

— AFP