Iran has accused Saudi-led coalition warplanes of “deliberately” bombing its embassy in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa.
State media quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying members of staff had been wounded in an air strike.
Sanaa residents reported dozens of air strikes on Thursday by the coalition, which is battling Houthi rebels.
However, residents and witnesses in Sanaa reported there was no damage to the embassy after the air strikes, Reuters and AP report.
An AFP reporter at the site said the embassy was still standing and had no visible damage.
A coalition spokesman said the strikes had targeted rebel missile launchers, and that the rebels had used abandoned embassies for operations.
Saudi Arabia has become embroiled in a diplomatic row with Iran after a Shia cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, was executed by the Saudi authorities.
The government in Riyadh accuses Iran of supporting the Houthis militarily – a charge it denies.
It is not clear whether the Iranian embassy was fully functioning, but a number of countries have withdrawn their staff or relocated missions to the port city of Aden in the past year.
Hossein Jaber Ansari, a spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry, said the raid had injured “a number of the building’s guards”, according to the Iranian news agency Ilna.
A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, Gen Ahmed Asseri, said Iran’s claims would be investigated.
The accusation is an incendiary one at at time of heightened tension, the BBC World Service’s Middle East editor Sebastian Usher says. But, he adds, it is unclear whether if the embassy has been hit and if so, whether it was deliberately targeted by the Saudi-led coalition.
Also on Thursday, a statement read on Iranian state television said the country had banned the import of all Saudi goods.
Iran’s diplomats had already been withdrawn from Saudi Arabia in response to Riyadh’s decision to sever ties.
Agencies
