A top Iranian cleric lashed out at the Saudi regime for ignoring its responsibility to host the Hajj pilgrims, and slaughtering people in Yemen instead.
“Rather than hosting the Kaaba pilgrims and making preparations for it, Saudi Arabia is involved in genocide in Yemen and provides the Takfiri terrorists in the region with weapons,” Tehran's Provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani said in an address to a gathering of worshippers in Tehran.
The Saudi kingdom sees no limit to shedding the blood of Muslims, he deplored.
The comments came after a recent UN report said Saudi-led coalition was responsible for 60 percent of child deaths and injuries in Yemen last year, killing 510 and wounding 667, and half the attacks on schools and hospitals.
More than 9,400 people have been killed in Yemen and at least 16,000 others injured since March 2015, when Saudi Arabia launched a military campaign against the Arab country.
Ayatollah Kermani added “Today, US, its western allies, and Al-Saud are the major enemies of Islamic Iran,”.
The grand cleric made the remark while preaching the second sermon of the prayers after urging the worshippers to be watchful of the foreign enemies.
“It is up to us to identify our foreign enemies, their plots, and conspiracies, act in correspondence with those plots the same way we are responsible to counter our internal enemies which are Satan and desires,” contended the Grand Ayatollah.
He underlined that "the Islamic Revolution has been entrusted to Iranians, and a revolution which freed the country, belittled the arrogant powers, and honored Muslims, is in danger of ignorance and injustice."
“It is up to all authorities of the country, especially the heads of the three branches of Iran’s political system, to endeavor for solving the national problems, and propelling the economy of Iran,” underlined Ayatollah Movahhedi Kermani, adding that realizing the Resistance Economy would lead to the solution of unemployment and recession.
The grand cleric called for initiative in fighting problems like inflation, bureaucratic and financial corruption, smuggling of goods, as well as in the religious etiquette of the society, and the issues of the youth.
He also called all the people and officials of the country to be harmonious and not let any void of division for the malevolent enemies of the country.
