Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said that Tehran is ready to mediate in the issue of Yemen if Riyadh gives the nod.

"If Saudis accept a diplomatic solution, Iran will adopt a mediatory role in the issue of Yemen; but of course, the US thinks that the era of milking Saudi Arabia is not yet over,” Larijani said on Tuesday in a meeting with Vice President of German Parliament Claudia Roth on the sidelines of the 141st IPU Assembly in Belgrade.

Saudi Arabia has been fighting Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen since 2015. The military solution has been difficult to achieve over the last five years, and now calls for diplomatic have increased in order to defuse regional tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran and end the catastrophic war in Yemen.

-Agencies