When Will Iran Play the Houthi Card?
Episode description
Aimen has been called away for important last-minute insider meetings, so sitting in for him on today's episode is Nadwa Al-Dawsari, veteran researcher, conflict analyst, and policy advisor with 20 years of field experience in Yemen and the broader Middle East.
Nadwa and Thomas discuss:
- How Yemeni tribalism really works
- The IRGC agents who are in control of Houthi war policy
- Houthi eschatological beliefs
- When the Houthis are likely to join the Iran War in force
- What the military capabilities of the Houthis really are
- The long shadow of the Stockholm Agreement
- Houthi techniques of indoctrination and control
- The growing Houthi presence in the Horn of Africa
- How the Houthis and Al Qaeda are now effectively allies
- Why Western decision-makers get the Middle East so disastrously wrong
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