Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan has expressed confidence that the oppressed Yemeni people will be the ultimate winners in Saudi Arabia’s ongoing war against the impoverished Arab nation.

“Genocide, war crimes, oppression and aggression, as promised by the Almighty, will have no result but doom and destruction,” Dehqan said on Sunday.

He added that the current “bitter events” in the region are the outcomes of discord and division among Muslims.

Such a division in the Muslim world has emboldened the hegemonic system, particularly the United States, and resulted in the brutal aggression of the Israeli regime against Muslim nations and unprecedented advances by terrorist groups.

Saudi Arabia started its air campaign against Yemen on March 26 - without a UN mandate - in a bid to restore power to the fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Riyadh.

The United Nations says since March 19, over 1,800 people have been killed and 7,330 injured due to the conflict in Yemen, which was exacerbated by the Saudi airstrikes.

Dehqan further said the Iranian nation's unity and solidarity helped it stand up to the excessive demands of the hegemonic powers.

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