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Iran rejects any role in Yemen's ship seizure

ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency

Mon / 20 November 2023 / 11:35

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says There is no basis for Benjamin Netanyahu's claims regarding Iran's role in seizing the Galaxy Leader ship.

Tehran (ISNA) - Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesmanIn Nasser Kanani rejects Israel Prime Minister office allegasion that claimed Iran was involved in the seizure of the Israeli ship by the Yemenis.

"These accusations are false and caused by the difficult conditions that the Zionist regime is dealing with". Kanani said on Monday in weekly press conference In Tehran.

Yemen armed forces spokesman said on sunday that the movement's fighters have seized the ship, Galaxy Leader owned by an Israeli businessman.

In a video statement, Brigadier General Yahya Saree confirmed that the ship named Galaxy Leader was led to the Yemeni coast, emphasizing that this operation comes in support of Palestine's West Bank and Gaza.

The Israeli cabinet called the seizure "a very serious event on a global level", with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office saying Israel was not involved in the ship's ownership, operation or the makeup of its international crew.

"This is another Iranian act of terrorism that represents an escalation in Iran's belligerence against the citizens of the free world, with concomitant international ramifications vis-a-vis the security of global shipping routes," claimed a statement released by the prime minister's office.

"We have repeatedly said that the resistance groups in the region represent their countries and nations and make decisions based on interests of their countries and nations and act independently" Iranian top diplomat responded to Israeli allegation.

Kanani also said that "Such comments are in line with dire situation that the Zionists are facing and they cannot accept that they have suffered a strategic, heavy and multi-dimensional defeat by the resistance movement in Palestine".

"Unlike the US, Iran does not have proxy forces and the resistance groups in the region are the representatives of their nations, and they act based on their interests, and their actions are part of the reactions to the regime's crimes. It is a Zionist who is committing genocide and war crimes in Gaza under the support of US". Iranian foreign ministry spokesman stressed.

AnsarAllah have launched several missile and drone attacks against Israel since the latest assault on the besieged Gaza Strip began on October 7, killing more than 12,300 Palestinians, including 5,000 children.

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