Iran has dismissed allegations that it provided missiles to Houthi rebels in Yemen, after a ballistic missile fired from Yemen came close to the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Saturday.
«These missiles have been manufactured by the Yemenis and their military industries,» he said.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they launched a Burqan 2H long-range missile at the Saudi airport.
Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies accuse Iran of providing material support to the Houthi rebels.
«Iran’s role and its direct command of its Houthi proxy in this matter constitutes a clear act of aggression that targets neighboring countries, and threatens peace and security in the region and globally» read a statement provided by the Saudi-led coalition on Monday.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia said the incident «could rise to be considered an act of war» by Iran, the statement said. «The Coalition Command also affirms that the Kingdom reserves its right to respond to Iran in the appropriate time and manner,» the statement also said.
Several hours after the attack on the airport in Riyadh, the Saudi-led coalition sent a barrage of missile strikes into the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. It was the first attack at night on Sanaa in recent weeks.
Saudi Arabia has been fighting a proxy war in Yemen against Iran, which it accuses of arming the Houthi rebels.

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President Donald Trump, speaking in Japan, said the shooting that killed 26 people in a church near San Antonio, Texas is the result of a ‘mental health problem at the highest level. (Nov. 6)
President Donald Trump, speaking in Japan, said the shooting that killed 26 people in a church near San Antonio, Texas is the result of a ‘mental health problem at the highest level. (Nov. 6)

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Among the 26 people killed in an attack at a small South Texas church were tight-knit neighbors and family members, ranging in age from 5 to 72 years old.
A gunman dressed in black tactical-style gear and armed with an assault rifle opened fire inside a small South Texas church, killing 26 people in an attack that claimed tight-knit neighbors and multiple family members ranging in age from 5 to 72 years old.
Once the shooting started Sunday at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, there was likely «no way» for congregants to escape, said Wilson County Sheriff Joe D. Tackitt Jr. Officials said about 20 others were wounded.
«He just walked down the center aisle, turned around and my understanding was shooting on his way back out,» said Tackitt, who said the gunman also carried a handgun but that he didn’t know if it was fired. Tackitt described the scene as «terrible.»
«It’s unbelievable to see children, men and women, laying there. Defenseless people,» he said.
Authorities didn’t identify the attacker during a news conference Sunday night. But two other officials — one a U. S. official and one in law enforcement — identified him as Devin Kelley. They spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the investigation.
The U. S. official said Kelley lived in a San Antonio suburb and didn’t appear to be linked to organized terrorist groups. Investigators were looking at social media posts Kelley made in the days before the attack, including one that appeared to show an AR-15 semiautomatic weapon.
Kelley received a bad conduct discharge from the Air Force for assaulting his spouse and child, and was sentenced to 12 months’ confinement after a 2012 court-martial. Kelley served in Logistics Readiness at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico from 2010 until his 2014 discharge, Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said.
At the news conference, the attacker was described only as a white man in his 20s who was wearing black tactical gear and a ballistic vest when he pulled into a gas station across from the church, about 30 miles (48.28 kilometers) southeast of San Antonio, around 11:20 a.m.
The gunman crossed the street and started firing the rifle at the church, said Freeman Martin, a regional director of the Texas Department of Safety, then continued firing after entering the white wood-frame building, where an 11 a.m. service was scheduled.
As he left, the shooter was confronted by an armed resident who «grabbed his rifle and engaged that suspect,» Martin said. A short time later, the suspect was found dead in his vehicle at the county line.
Federal agents, including ATF investigators and the FBI’s evidence collection team, swarmed the small rural community of just hundreds of residents.
Several weapons were found inside the vehicle and Martin said it was unclear if the attacker died of a self-inflicted wound or if he was shot by the resident who confronted him. He said investigators weren’t ready to discuss a possible motive.
Martin said 23 of the dead were found in the church, two were found outside and one died after being taken to a hospital.
The man who confronted Kelley had help from another local resident, Johnnie Langendorff, who told KSAT TV that he was driving past the church as the shooting happened. He didn’t identify the armed resident but said the man exchanged gunfire with the gunman, then asked to get in Langendorff’s truck and the pair followed as the gunman drove away.
Langendorff said the gunman eventually lost control of his vehicle and crashed. He said the other man walked up to the vehicle with his gun drawn and the suspect did not move. He stayed there for at least five minutes, until police arrived.
«I was strictly just acting on what’s the right thing to do,» Langendorff said.
Among those killed was the church pastor’s 14-year-old daughter, Annabelle Pomeroy. Pastor Frank Pomeroy and his wife, Sherri, were both out of town when the attack occurred, Sherri Pomeroy wrote in a text message.
«We lost our 14-year-old daughter today and many friends,» she wrote. «Neither of us has made it back into town yet to personally see the devastation. I am at the charlotte airport trying to get home as soon as i can.»
Church member Nick Uhlig, 34, who wasn’t at Sunday’s service, told the AP that his cousin, who was 8 months pregnant, and her in-laws were among those killed. He later told the Houston Chronicle that three of his cousin’s children also were slain.
President Donald Trump, who was in Japan, called the shooting an «act of evil,» later calling the gunman «a very deranged individual.»
Sunday evening, two sheriff’s vans were parked outside the gate of a cattle fence surrounding the address listed for Kelley on the rural, western outskirts of New Braunfels, north of San Antonio.
Ryan Albers, 16, who lives across the road, said he heard intensifying gunfire coming from that direction in recent days.
«It was definitely not just a shotgun or someone hunting,» Albers said. «It was someone using automatic weapon fire.»
The church has posted videos of its Sunday services on a YouTube channel, raising the possibility that the shooting was captured on video.
In a video of its Oct. 8 service, a congregant who spoke and read Scripture pointed to the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shooting a week earlier as evidence of the «wicked nature» of man. That shooting left 58 dead and more than 500 injured.
Gov. Greg Abbott called Sunday’s attack the worst mass shooting in Texas history. It came on the eighth anniversary of a shooting at the Texas’ Fort Hood, where 13 people were killed and 31 others wounded by a former U. S. Army major.
The previous deadliest mass shooting in Texas had been a 1991 attack in Killeen, when a mentally disturbed man crashed his pickup truck through a restaurant window at lunchtime and started shooting people, killing 23 and injuring more than 20 others.
The University of Texas was the site of one of the most infamous mass shootings in modern American history, when U. S. Marine sniper Charles Whitman climbed the Austin campus’ clock tower in 1966 and began firing on stunned people below, killing 13 and wounding nearly three dozen others. He had killed his wife and mother before heading to the tower, one victim died a week later and medical examiners eventually attributed a 17th death to Whitman in 2001.
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A police officer testified on Monday at the trial of two women accused of killing the half-brother of North Korea’s leader that four suspects at large believed to have plotted with the women were North Koreans who fled Malaysia immediately after…
A police officer testified on Monday at the trial of two women accused of killing the half-brother of North Korea’s leader that four suspects at large believed to have plotted with the women were North Koreans who fled Malaysia immediately after the assassination.
Police investigating officer Wan Azirul Nizam Che Wan Aziz also said an employee from North Korea’s state-owned carrier, Air Koryo, arranged tickets for the four men so they could fly after the attack on Kim Jong-nam was carried out in a crowded departure terminal at Kuala Lumpur airport last on February 13.
Wan Azirul, who earlier identified the four only as Mr Y, Mr Chang, Hanamori and James, revealed their full identifies as the trial entered a second month.
The two young women – Siti Aisyah of Indonesia and Doan Thi Huong of Vietnam, who are accused of smearing VX nerve agent onto Kim’s face – are the only two suspects detained in the brazen assassination of Kim, an outcast from North Korea’s ruling family who lived abroad in virtual exile for years. Both women pleaded not guilty at the start of their trial on October 2 to murder charges that carry mandatory death sentences if they are convicted.
Wan Azirul testified on Monday that Hanamori, whom he earlier identified as the mastermind, is Ri Jae Nam, 57, and that Mr Chang, who was seen in airport security video with Aisyah, is Hong Song Hac, 34.
Mr Y, seen in the video with Doan, is Ri Ji Hyon, 33, and the fourth suspect, James, is O Jong Gil, 54, Wan Azirul said.
He said the four men entered Malaysia on different days beginning last January 31.
Interpol put out a red alert for the arrest of the four in March following a request from Malaysian police.
Wan Azirul said three of the men flew off to Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, more than three hours after the attack on Kim, but could not remember where the fourth suspect flew to. Police earlier said the four are believed to be back in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang.
Wan Azirul said police found a photo of another North Korean, Ri Ji U, 30, also known as James, in Aisyah’s cellphone. But there was no record of this person entering or exiting Malaysia, he told the court.
Earlier in the trial, the court was shown airport security video of the four suspects at large. O Jong Gil was seen checking in at the main airport terminal more than two hours after the other three left on the same flight.
The defendants’ defence lawyers have said Huong and Aisyah were duped by suspected North Korean agents into believing they were playing a harmless prank for a television show. Prosecutors contend the women’s conduct showed they knew they were handling poison.
Malaysia has never directly accused North Korea, but South Korea’s spy agency has claimed the attack was part of a plot by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to kill a brother he reportedly never met. Kim Jong-nam was not known to have actively been seeking influence over his younger brother, but had years earlier spoken out publicly against his family’s dynastic rule.

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