Iran must resist like Yemen, senior cleric says

Hashem Hosseini Bushehri, Friday prayer Imam in Qom, said Iranians must resist Western pressure with “initiative and resistance” like the people of Yemen, and warned that the snapback of UN sanctions amounts to Europe taking the Iranian people “hostage.”

Speaking at prayers in Qom on Friday, Hosseini Bushehri condemned the US for abandoning the nuclear deal and accused Europe of following suit by triggering the snapback mechanism. He said, “They tore up the agreement and now they want to hold the people of Iran accountable.”

Qom, located in central Iran, is one of the country’s key religious and political centers.