The Middle East and a New Round of Escalation of the War in Yemen

... Saad al-Hariri, himself a Saudi citizen. One month after the killing of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Saudis might intensify the “southern dimension” of their deterrence of Iran, this time by putting more military pressure on what they view as another Iranian proxy –Ansar Allah. That said, it could well turn out that the simplified theory of a regional axis of the supposed Shia–Sunni confrontation does not explain what is really going on. We believe that competition for the status of the most financially potent ...