Iran’s acting foreign minister, Ali Bagheri Kani, has hailed Yemeni armed forces over the recent anti-Israel operations voicing solidarity in face of the regime’s atrocities.

Bagheri Kani made the remarks on Monday during a telephone conversation with Mohammed Abdul-Salam, spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarullah popular resistance movement.

He condemned Israel’s Saturday airstrike on civilian facilities in the Red Sea port of al-Hudaydah that killed six Yemenis and left 83 others injured, many of them with severe burns.

Bagheri Kani said that the “historic” support of the Yemeni nation and resistance fighters for the oppressed Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is a “source of pride for the Muslim Ummah.”

The “exemplary” resilience of the people of Gaza, Yemen's pro-Palestinian initiative, and Iran’s April retaliatory operation against Israel are the three factors that have resulted in the occupying regime’s “strategic failure” during its ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, the top diplomat added.

The Yemeni forces have been targeting the occupied Palestinian territories as well as Israeli ships and vessels affiliated with it since October 7, when the regime in Tel Aviv began its brutal Gaza onslaught, killing over 39,000 Palestinians.

They have vowed to keep up their operations as long as the regime sustains the offensive against Gaza and a simultaneous siege that it has been enforcing against the Palestinian territory.