Iran has lashed out at Saudi Arabia for continuing its military campaign against Yemen, saying the attacks constitute a blatant violation of human rights in the impoverished Arab state.

“Saudi Arabia's attacks on [Yemen’s] infrastructure and civilian targets and the killing and injuring of civilians are the continuation of blatant violation of human rights,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Marzieh Afkham, said on Tuesday.

She strongly condemned Saudi Arabia’s relentless airstrikes against residential and commercial areas in Yemeni cities, which have been intensified over recent days.

“International bodies and institutions, particularly the United Nations, are expected to fulfill their responsibility with regard to an immediate halt to the attacks and [the delivery of] aid to the oppressed Yemeni people,” Afkham said.

She once again expressed Iran’s readiness to dispatch humanitarian aid for Yemenis and provide treatment to the wounded.

Over 120 people have been killed in Saudi airstrikes on Yemen over the last 24 hours.

At least 70 people were killed in multiple Saudi airstrikes in the impoverished country’s western province of Amran on Monday and 50 others died after Saudi jets carried out raids on a local market in the southwestern Lahij Province.

Saudi Arabia has been bombarding Yemen since March 26 without any authorization from the United Nations. According to the UN, over 1,500 civilians have been killed in the attacks so far.

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