Saudi Arabia Thought It Could Buy Off Iran’s Yemeni Allies. It Was Wrong
Back to war with the Houthis.
July 31, 2026
Saudi Arabia Thought It Could Buy Off Iran’s Yemeni Allies. It Was Wrong
Back to war with the Houthis.
In the past two weeks, the Iran-backed Houthis have launched missiles at Saudi ships and oil installations from Yemen and, reportedly, from Iraq, while threatening to blockade the Red Sea. Riyadh has conducted airstrikes on Houthi targets, and yesterday news broke that the kingdom is preparing a major offensive. Michael Rubin explains why a conflict that Saudi Arabia believed it had extracted itself from in 2022 has now come back to haunt it:
July 31, 2026
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