Iran Press/America: "We are giving aerial support to a genocidal war that Saudi Arabia is waging against Yemen," Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson, an author and spiritual adviser, said in an interview with CBS News.
"Tens of thousands of people have been starved, including children," Williamson told the CBS programme, 'Face the Nation' on Sunday.
Williamson said older generations of Americans would be 'rolling over in their graves' over the Trump administration's multi-billion-dollar arms deal with the Saudi monarchy, which has been under withering criticism for its operations in Yemen.
In a report released Friday, the United Nations said the Saudi-led coalition was responsible for the deaths of at least 729 Yemeni children last year.
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Williamson said the U.S. should instead promote 'moral leadership' around the world.
"We need to wage peace," Williamson added, noting her proposal to create a "US Department of Peace."
The Yemeni people have been under massive attacks by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia for more than four years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in the war so far.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its allies have carried out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The unpopular former president Mansour Hadi has very little support among the Yemeni people.
The Saudi war has impacted over seven million children in Yemen who now face a serious threat of famine, according to UNICEF figures. Over 6,000 children have either been killed or sustained serious injuries since 2015, UN children’s agency said. The humanitarian situation in the country has also been exacerbated by outbreaks of cholera, polio, and measles.207/209
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