Rejecting Yemen cease-fire, Iran proves its coronavirus priorities

Saudi Arabia deserves credit for announcing a unilateral two-week coronavirus-related cease-fire in Yemen. But in encouraging its Houthi allies’ intransigence, Iran has proven it deserves no American sanctions relief.

Five years of civil war have ripped apart Yemen’s already fragile public health infrastructure. Hospitals have been destroyed and medical supplies drained. And even if Saudi forces have shown insufficient regard for civilian lives, Iran’s Houthi allies have made a point of disrupting and pillaging aid supplies for their own benefit.