Iran Summons Yemeni Envoy over Terrorist Attack on Embassy in Sana’a

(FNA)- The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the Yemeni charge d’affaires to Tehran over the Wednesday morning terrorist attack on the residence of the country's ambassador in Sana'a.

At the meeting, the Islamic Republic’s displeasure and official protest was conveyed to the Yemeni charge d'affaires over the terrorist attack on the residence of the Iranian ambassador in the Yemeni capital.

The Iranian foreign ministry in its protest letter called on the Yemeni government to find and bring to justice the perpetrators of the terrorist attack and adopt the needed security measures to protect the Iranian embassy in Sana'a.

The Yemeni charge d'affaires, for his part, voiced regret over the incident, and said that he will quickly relay Iran's official protest to his government.

The blast punched a large hole in the building and sent rubble flying across the street of the well-guarded diplomatic quarter of the city, a Reuters witness said.

According to Reuters, Yemeni soldiers and paramedics arrived at the scene with stretchers. The Reuters report quoted Abdullah Mahmoud, a soldier, as claiming that Yemeni and Iranian guards had been killed and a paramedic at the scene said three dead bodies and three wounded had been taken from the area. It was not immediately clear whether the ambassador was in the residence at the time of the blast, the Reuters report added.

But a few hours later, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham dismissed the reports that the guards at the ambassador's residence had been killed in the suicide blast, and said all Iranian embassy staff members were in good health.

"All the staff members of the Iranian embassy in Sana'a are healthy and unhurt by the blast near the Iranian embassy (which is near to the ambassador's residence) in Yemen," Afkham said in her weekly press conference in Tehran.