Yemen Monitor/ Sana’a/Private:
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi categorically denied that his country had supplied the Houthi armed group in Yemen with missiles on Monday. This comes just hours after the Iranian president denied providing “hypersonic” missiles that were launched at Israeli-occupied territories.
The denial follows the Houthis’ claim the previous day that the missile they launched at Israel was hypersonic, and they accused Iran of supplying them with weapons.
In an interview with Al-Masirah TV (a Houthi-affiliated channel) followed by Yemen Monitor, Araqchi stated that these allegations are baseless.
The head of Iranian diplomacy emphasized the Houthis’ important position in the resistance axis and their “unique role” during the ongoing Israeli war. The occupation forces are waging a brutal aggression on the Gaza Strip, resulting in the martyrdom of over 41,000 and the injury of 96,000, mostly women and children.
Araqchi said that the Houthi group has its own will and makes its own decisions, “and uses its own weapons when it prefers, and possesses the necessary technology to manufacture weapons.”
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian had previously stated in a televised press conference that Tehran had not sent hypersonic missiles to the Houthis in Yemen.
Raisi said, “It takes a week to travel to Yemen (from Iran), so how did this missile get there? We don’t have such missiles to give to Yemen.”
However, Iran had unveiled what it described as its first domestically-produced hypersonic ballistic missile last year, with state media publishing images of the missile, named “Fateh,” during a ceremony.
