Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia should get involved in peace efforts rather than in the conflict in Yemen, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"As an influential Muslim state, the Saudi government was expected to bring together the warring parties in Yemen and promote peace process in the country," Ahmadinejad said when addressing a crowd in Iran's southwestern city of Ahvaz.
Referring to unidentified Western countries and Israel, the president said that "they pushed Saudi Arabia to enter into fighting in Yemen to
damage the Saudi image," said the report.
Iran has already expressed its concern over the killing of the "innocent people" in Yemen.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said in December that "Iran is unhappy with the ongoing situation in Yemen. It is the murdering of Muslim brothers," according to Press TV.
On Tuesday, Saudi state TV reported that four Saudi soldiers were killed in clashes with Yemen's Shiite Houthi rebels near the border.
Saudi Deputy Defense Minister, Prince Khaled bin Sultan, was quoted as saying that the four Saudi soldiers have been killed in clashes at a border post near Yemen in which Saudi forces recaptured the position and destroyed the Shiite infiltrators.
"As many as 82 Saudi soldiers were killed since the beginning of military confrontations between Saudi forces and Houthis," he said.
Saudi troops have been fighting Houthi rebels since Nov. 3 after a group of the rebels, in a cross-border attack, killed a Saudi soldier and injured 11 others.
Saudi army stressed its operations were conducted within Saudi territories, but the rebels say Saudi fighters had bombed sites in Yemeni territories. Yemeni officials, for their part, denied that Saudi army targeted posts of Houthi rebels within Yemen.
The Yemeni army launched an all-out offensive on Aug. 11 against Houthi rebels who Sanaa says seek to re-establish the clerical rule overthrown by the 1962 Yemeni revolution which yielded the Yemeni republic.