Iran Supports Houthi Control over Yemen Telecommunications Sector
by Brian Carter
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by Brian Carter
Iran may be providing technical assistance to strengthen the Houthi movement’s ability to gather intelligence and suppress dissent. A Yemeni nongovernmental organization (NGO) reported that Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah have sent logistical and technical support to Yemen to help the Houthis exploit their control over domestic telecommunications infrastructure. This support will help the Houthis suppress domestic dissent and solidify their control over northern Yemen.
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by Peter Salisbury
While Yemen may not be a Western policy priority today, the growing humanitarian crisis and the rise of jihadist groups will soon force it further up the international policy agenda.
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by Ibrahim Galal
This chapter unpacks how the Yemen conflict evolved from a set of largely deep-seated, multifaceted, and unresolved issues during Saleh’s 33-year tenure into a complex armed conflict and foreign military intervention, passing through a fragile transitional peace process that ended with a Houthi coup d’état on September 21, 2014. Interestingly, the internal issues that made Yemen receptive to the Arab Spring continue to aggravate, deepening grievances and local fragmentation, let alone that the combination of domestic and external factors that jeopardized the UN-endorsed, Gulf-backed transitional process continue to reoccur, albeit differently, posing serious wonders to a forthcoming peace agreement. The UN mediation’s departure from status quo ante bellum to the normalization of status quo, evident in the Stockholm Agreement,...