Houthis pushing to model Iran's Hormuz control in Red Sea, Yemeni FM says
- Speaking in Riyadh, Yemen’s internationally recognised government warns that global complacency has emboldened the Houthis.
- Yemen’s Houthi movement is aiming to replicate Iran’s strategy in the Strait of Hormuz by controlling shipping flows in the Red Sea’s Bab al-Mandeb Strait, the Yemeni government’s top diplomat warns.
- “The Houthis want to copy the Iranian model , and this will shut down two main straits, the gateways into the Gulf and Red Sea,” the foreign minister-designate for the internationally recognised Yemeni government, Afrah al-Zouba, told journalists on Monday.
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- Speaking in Riyadh, Yemen’s internationally recognised government warns that global complacency has emboldened the Houthis.
- Yemen’s Houthi movement is aiming to replicate Iran’s strategy in the Strait of Hormuz by controlling shipping flows in the Red Sea’s Bab al-Mandeb Strait, the Yemeni government’s top diplomat warns.
- “The Houthis want to copy the Iranian model , and this will shut down two main straits, the gateways into the Gulf and Red Sea,” the foreign minister-designate for the internationally recognised Yemeni government, Afrah al-Zouba, told journalists on Monday.
Sources: Reuters, Al Jazeera