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Thursday, May 21, 2015
3 Foreign Warships Sailing Near Iran's Yemen-Bound Aid Cargo Vessel

3 Foreign Warships Sailing Near Iran's Yemen-Bound Aid Cargo Vessel
Thu May 21, 2015 4:58
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940231000718

TEHRAN (FNA)- Three foreign warships have approached the Iranian aid cargo
ship which is due to dock at Yemen's Hudayda port after undergoing UN
inspections in Djibouti.

The Iranian cargo ship carrying humanitarian aid to Yemen is now near the
Djibouti port.

FNA reporter on the Iranian aid cargo vessel, Iran-Shahed, said the
intention of the three forein warships is not clear yet.

The ship which was sent by the Iranian Red Crescent Society to Yemen on May
13, loaded with pharmaceuticals and medical equipment, will then head
towards Yemen's al-Hudayda port after being inspected by the UN.

IRCS Managing Director Seyed Amir Mohsen Ziyaee announced Tuesday that the
IRCS would send another ship with relief aid to Yemen soon.

"A 12,000-ton shipment of Iran's relief aids is being prepared to be
dispatched to Yemen," Ziyaee said.

He noted that IRCS cargo planes carrying Iran' food aid will be dispatched
to Djibouti where a relief aid center is set up in the coming days, and
said, "Furthermore, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
plans to set up a center in Salalah, Oman, in the coming days and as soon as
it becomes ready, Iran's pharmaceutical aid will be sent (to Oman) through
air."

The IRCS has been trying to dispatch humanitarian aid to Yemen through sea
and air, but has so far been unable to do so due to Saudi Arabia's blockade
of the war-ravaged country.

Late in April, Saudi jet fighters shooed away three Iranian cargo planes
from Yemen's airspace. But in the third case they bombed the Sana'a airport
control tower and runway seven times to prevent the Iranian defying pilot
from landing. The Iranian civilian plane was carrying humanitarian aids,
including medical equipment, for the Yemeni people who have been under the
Saudi-led airstrikes for over a month now. The cargo plane was due to take
humanitarian aid to Yemen and take several civilians, who were critically
wounded in the recent Saudi bombings, back to Tehran to receive specialized
medical treatment.

Iran had earlier sent five consignments of humanitarian aid to Yemen,
including a total of 69 tons of relief, medical, treatment, and consumer
items.

Last month, Head of the Yemeni Red Crescent Society Mohammad Ahmad al-Kebab
in a letter to Ziayee thanked Iran for the recent humanitarian and medical
aid cargoes sent to his country.

"I appreciate the unsparing help and relief operations as well as the
humanitarian attempts of the IRCS," al-Kebab said in his letter.

He expressed the hope that interactions and mutual cooperation between the
two countries' Red Crescent societies would increase in future.

But late in April, the IRCS blasted Saudi Arabia for blocking Iran's
humanitarian aids to Yemen.

"The IRCS humanitarian aid consignments are ready to be dispatched to Yemen,
but unfortunately Saudi Arabia prevents their delivery to Yemen,"
Shahabeddin Mohammadi Araqi, IRCS deputy managing director for international
and humanitarian affairs, said.

Mohammadi Araqi described the Yemeni people's conditions as critical, and
said, "We are in contact with Yemen's Red Crescent Society and Health
Ministry and have included their needs in the new consignment."

He lamented that planes and ships are not allowed into Yemen's ports and
airports, and said, "Unfortunately, the Saudi government has prevented the
dispatch of aids to Yemen

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