A UNHCR employee arranges aid at Dubai International Humanitarian city in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, before shipping them to Yemen May 14, 2015. Relief agencies on Thursday expanded distribution of aid to some of the millions of Yemenis deprived of food, fuel and medicine during recent weeks of fighting and airstrikes, taking advantage of a fragile five-day humanitarian truce. REUTERS/Lara Sukhtian
RIYADH/ANKARA/ADEN (Reuters) - A top member of Iran's parliament called Saudi Arabia's King Salman a traitor to Islam on Thursday, a sharp escalation in rhetoric over Riyadh's air strikes against an Iranian-allied militia that has seized much of neighbouring Yemen.
Although a five-day humanitarian truce was largely holding, and aid was getting to some of the millions of Yemenis deprived of food, fuel and medicine, tensions were also mounting over an Iranian relief ship, which Saudi Arabia insisted on inspecting.
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