More Weapons for the Yemen War

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Washington announced this week that it is getting much more involved in the Saudi bombing of Yemen. The Saudis want to re-install ousted Yemeni president Hadi, who himself had taken power in a coup. US Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced yesterday that the US would be expediting its shipments of bombs to Saudi Arabia where they would be used to blow up more of that country's citizens and infrastructure. Meanwhile Iran has sent a couple of naval vessels to the increasingly volatile area. Can anyone say why exactly the US is rapidly becoming involved in yet another war in the Middle East? Tune in to the Ron Paul Liberty Report for more:

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/arch...the-yemen-war/

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US Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced yesterday that the US would be expediting its shipments of bombs to Saudi Arabia where they would be used to blow up more of that country's citizens and infrastructure.

Graphic video at link, if you can stomach it.

‘Better get killed quickly than suffer like this’: Yemeni civilians pay high price for strikes

A crying girl whose family was burned alive and killed in airstrikes, a wounded man who believes that a quick death is better than his suffering now, and others, grieving, desperate and injured. These scenes are what RT saw visiting a hospital in Yemen.

“It was evening and we were asleep and heard planes above us,” a girl from a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, told RT, adding that the fifth plane “bombed a tanker at a petrol station close to our house.”

“The house caught fire and we were burned and wounded,” he said, “My family was burned alive and killed.”

One more patient in the hospital, Abdalkareem Abdullah, who is seen to have burns all over his body, says he demands from the international community “to allow us to be transferred abroad for medical treatment.”

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http://rt.com/news/248233-yemen-hosp...nts-civilians/

Meanwhile Iran has sent a couple of naval vessels to the increasingly volatile area.

Iran's Khamenei accuses Saudi Arabia of genocide over Yemen airstrikes

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has attacked the air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition against Houthi rebels in Yemen, saying the operation which has caused civilian deaths amounts to genocide.

“The aggression by Saudi Arabia against Yemen and its innocent people was a mistake,” Khamenei said in a speech on Iranian TV. “This is a crime and genocide that can be prosecuted in the international courts.”

The Supreme Leader stressed that Saudi Arabia and its allies will never achieve victory in the conflict with Houthi fighters, who took control of Yemen’s capital Sana’a in 2014 and are now on the offensive in the southern part of the country.

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Khamenei’s words were echoed by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who said on Thursday that airstrikes against the Houthis were “wrong” and urged the nations involved in the conflict to think “about an end to the war, about ceasefire and humanitarian assistance to the suffering people of Yemen."

Saudi Arabia initiated air strikes against the Shia Muslim Houthis two weeks ago, with the aim of suppressing the rebels and reinstating deposed Sunni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to power.

The World Health Organization said on Thursday that 643 people have been killed and 2,226 injured in the Yemen conflict.

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Earlier this week, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said the coalition’s actions do “not have any foundation in international law” as the airstrikes were launched without consultations with the United Nations.

Moscow also submitted a draft resolution to the UN, demanding "regular and obligatory humanitarian pauses in the airstrikes by the coalition” in an effort to quell the violence that is impacting civilians.

Meanwhile, the US is widening its support for the air campaign in Yemen, which is led by its key Arab allies, the Saudis.

The US military has begun air refueling operations for the Saudi-led airstrikes, the Pentagon said Wednesday, adding that supplying ammunition to the coalition members was also on the agenda.

Secretary of State John Kerry has accused Iran of meddling in Yemen, stressing that Tehran "needs to recognize that the US is not going to stand by while the region is destabilized or while people engage in overt warfare across lines — international boundaries — in other countries."

http://rt.com/news/248293-iran-khamenei-saudi-yemen/