The Yemeni Crisis: Structural Characteristics and Current Dynamics

... did any a priori assumption that the movement was serving Tehran’s interests before the war began. The authors agreed that the roots of Houthism lie both in Yemen’s history and traditions and in the bleak contemporary political situation in the Middle East following the attacks of September 11, a situation which—according to Sayyid Hussein al-Houthi and his successor, his brother Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the current leader of Ansar Allah—was largely the result of US policies that have plunged the region into chaos. Of course, the “revelations” in the monograph did not make relations between the Saudia Arabia and Ansar Allah any frindlier, but removing the label of “enemy ...