EghtesadOnline: Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said on Monday that it will be to the benefit of Saudi Arabia to leave Yemen as soon as possible.

EghtesadOnline: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon expressed shock and indignation of Iranian people and government over Saudis' recent airstrike in Yemen.

EghtesadOnline: Iranian humanitarian organizations deplored the Saudi crimes against humanity in Yemen, appealing to the International Committee of the Red Cross to coordinate emergency medical supplies to the victims of the Saudi bombardment of the Yemen.

EghtesadOnline: The Obama administration went ahead with a $1.3 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia last year despite warnings from some officials that the United States could be implicated in war crimes for supporting a Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen that has killed thousands of civilians, according to government documents and the accounts of current and former officials.

EghtesadOnline: Speaker of Yemen House of Representatives appealed for Iran's initiatives to stop the Saudi aggression citing indiscriminate bombardments of the civilian targets and imposing sanctions on Yemen by the Saudi government.

EghtesadOnline: Prominent Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Karima, strongly condemned the Saudi-led coalition attack on Yemen, and said unlike the propaganda by the Riyadh and Abu Dhabi the military men killed in the Arab-Saudi coalition war against Yemen are not martyrs.

EghtesadOnline: Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman has rejected the possibility of normalization of ties with Iran, after Tehran announces the possibility of deescalation if Riyadh halts Yemen bombardment.

EghtesadOnline: On the second anniversary of Saudi Arabia’s brutal military aggression against Yemen, the Iranian Foreign Ministry says war and bloodshed must immediately end in the impoverished country.

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s Minister of Defense Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan said Saudi Arabian leaders must be punished for their war crimes in Yemen.

EghtesadOnline: The Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels in Yemen said it will start an “immediate investigation” after more than 100 people were killed in an attack on a funeral hall in the capital, Sana’a, that triggered protests and calls for retaliation against the oil-rich kingdom.