TEHRAN, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Iran's ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday denied that his country has supplied missiles to the Yemeni Houthi militants who target Saudi Arabia's inner posts.
Gholamali Khoshrou dismissed the Saudi allegations as "baseless," urging the kingdom to engage in dialogue with the Houthis.
The three-year Saudi war on Yemen is not legitimate, Khoshrou said, adding that the war on Yemen has achieved nothing but massacre, hunger, diseases and destruction of its infrastructure.
"It is not the first time Saudi Arabia enters into correspondence against Iran in order to cover up its defeats in Yemen, and the international community is well aware of this fact," Khoshrou was quoted as saying by Iran's state TV.
"With adventurism and inexperience, the Saudis have helped inflict cholera on millions of Yemeni people and targeted children and civilians in the course of their bombardments," he said.
In a letter issued on Tuesday, Saudi envoy to the United Nations, Abdullah al-Muallami, urged the UN Security Council to hold the Islamic republic accountable for the alleged missile supply to Yemen's Houthis.
The Saudi-led coalition revealed on Monday "evidence" of the Iranian role in trafficking weapons to Yemen.
The coalition spokesperson Turki al-Malki said an Iranian made missile with Persian writing was confiscated in Yemen, and a shipment of missiles from Iran were seized before they were used by Houthi militias.
Khoshrou said that Saudi Arabia should "abandon adventurism and warmongering and engage in constructive political dialogue with Yemen, which is its neighbor, while respecting the people's rights."
Iran basically believes in no other solution than a political one to the conflict in Yemen, he said.
Saudi Arabia is leading a mostly Arab military coalition to fight Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen since March 2015.
Houthis have been controlling much of Yemen's north by force, including the capital Sanaa since 2014.
The war has killed more than 10,000 Yemenis, mostly civilians, and displaced over 3 million, according to humanitarian agencies.
