Vatanka Reports
News and Analysis on the Greater Middle East
Iran’s Yemen Play
March 4, 2015
<p class="font_8" style=""><span style=""><span class="color_2">When the Houthis, a Shia rebel group in Yemen, forced the country’s pro-Western president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, to flee the capital this past January, many in the region concluded that another Arab state had fallen into Tehran’s lap—a result, as one prominent commentator put it, of Iran’s “offensive state, the likes of which we have not seen in modern history.”</span></span></p>
Iran’s Yemen Play
March 4, 2015
<p class="font_8" style=""><span style=""><span class="color_2">When the Houthis, a Shia rebel group in Yemen, forced the country’s pro-Western president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, to flee the capital this past January, many in the region concluded that another Arab state had fallen into Tehran’s lap—a result, as one prominent commentator put it, of Iran’s “offensive state, the likes of which we have not seen in modern history.”</span></span></p>
Iran’s Yemen Play
March 4, 2015
<p class="font_8" style=""><span style=""><span class="color_2">When the Houthis, a Shia rebel group in Yemen, forced the country’s pro-Western president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, to flee the capital this past January, many in the region concluded that another Arab state had fallen into Tehran’s lap—a result, as one prominent commentator put it, of Iran’s “offensive state, the likes of which we have not seen in modern history.”</span></span></p>
Iran’s Yemen Play
March 4, 2015
<p class="font_8" style=""><span style=""><span class="color_2">When the Houthis, a Shia rebel group in Yemen, forced the country’s pro-Western president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, to flee the capital this past January, many in the region concluded that another Arab state had fallen into Tehran’s lap—a result, as one prominent commentator put it, of Iran’s “offensive state, the likes of which we have not seen in modern history.”</span></span></p>