Saudi-Led Coalition Denies Hitting Iranian Embassy in Yemen

His trip comes as Iran blamed Saudi Arabia for attacking its embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday.

On Wednesday, Jordan summoned the Iranian ambassador in Amman and condemned the attack on Saudi embassy in Tehran, as well as its rejection of Iran’s interference in Arab affairs.

General Ahmed Asseri, speaking for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, said it would investigate the accusation.

Earlier, Iran said it would protest to the United Nations Security Council after it accused Saudi warplanes of deliberately bombing its embassy in the Yemeni capital overnight.

A protest by hundreds of Bahrain’s majority Shiites marching to denounce Saudi Arabia for its execution last week of a leading Shiite cleric has descended into violence.

The attacks on the Saudi diplomatic posts in Tehran and Mashhad came after Saudi Arabia’s execution of 47 convicted terrorists including a prominent Iranian-backed cleric.

Witnesses claim that the compound is still intact and Saudi officials have hit out at the charges saying they are “propaganda”.

Although an Associated Press reporter in Sanaa said he saw no damage to the Iranian embassy there on Thursday, the provocation of a nearby strike was enough to prompt further retaliation from the Iranian government.

They said an air strike had hit a public square about 700 metres (yards) away from the embassy and that some stones and shrapnel had landed in the embassy’s yard.

In eastern Saudi Arabia, where Nimr agitated for greater political rights for Shias in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, three days of mourning over his death were to end Wednesday night.

Iran’s government on Thursday banned all imports of products made in Saudi Arabia, according to student news agency ISNA.

On Tuesday, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Riyadh can not hide the “crime” of killing a religious cleric by severing diplomatic ties with Tehran.

“Djibouti cut its diplomatic ties with Iran out of solidarity with Saudi Arabia”, Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf told Reuters in a text message.