The Iranian Foreign Ministry has praised the Russian veto on a resolution drawn up by Britain accusing Iran of violating the UN arms embargo on the Yemeni rebels, calling it a "defeat" for the United States.
The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Bahram Qasemi, said in a statement that the resolution proposed by Britain "was blocked because it is far from reality".
He said that the resolution written in Britain "has turned into another setback, particularly for the United States".
Qasemi added that the US and British approaches to the UN Security Council over the past three years "were non-constructive".
Instead of taking advantage of UNSC as an international mechanism to resolve conflicts, Washington and London used it only to legitimize assaults and cover war crimes committed in Yemen, the spokesman said.
On Monday, Russia blocked a resolution in the United Nations Security Council, which denounced Iran's "failure to comply" with the UN sanctions regime on arms embargoes to Houthi Shiite militants in Yemen.
The council then put to the vote the text written in Russian, which obtained the unanimous support of the 15 members of the council. The Russian text was adopted as an 2402 resolution, in which no reference was made to Iran.
Iran's ambassador to the UN, Gholamali Khoshroo, said on Tuesday that the text written by Britain is intended to cover the crimes of Saudi Arabia in Yemen.
Khoshroo rejected accusations that the Islamic Republic violated the UN embargo.
On Tuesday, Qasemi urged the international community to help stop "the violence of foreign troops in Yemen and the massacre of thousands of innocent Yemenis".
He also blamed the United States and Britain for what he called "playing a destructive role in Yemen ... destabilizing the region through the arming of the Saudi-led coalition with modern weapons and arsenals".
From March 2015 Saudi Arabia leads a predominantly Arab military coalition to fight the Houthi rebels supported by Iran in Yemen.
The Houthi control much of northern Yemen by force, including the capital Sanaa from the 2014.
The war in Yemen killed over 10.000 Yemenis, mostly civilians, and displaced over 3 million, according to humanitarian agencies.
The West and its regional allies have accused Iran of violating the ban on providing UN-imposed weapons against militants in Yemen. Tehran denied the allegations.
