Iran leaders blast Saudi over Yemen, stress support for Assad

A senior Iranian official branded Saudi Arabia's King Salman a traitor to Islam on Thursday and equated the Gulf state's military assault on Iranian-allied fighters in Yemen with Israeli actions against Palestinians. Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of Iran's national security and foreign policy committee, was speaking a day after Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the kingdom of "crimes" and the deputy head of Iran's military warned Riyadh of "