Yemen's US backed president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi fled Yemen ahead of an advancing column of Houthi rebels as the Kingdom moved up major military units to its southern border. ...The fall of Aden would put the "Bab al-Mandeb strait, a Red Sea shipping lane vital to oil shipments" within anti-ship missile and mining operational range [5] of Iran.
..."If the Iranians are able to control Bab al Mandab and the Strait of Hormuz, they'd be able to have a chokehold on the global economy," a Western diplomat in San'a said.
...now looks like Iran is not only going to take Yemen, but keep Syria into the bargain, not to mention Iraq.
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| The Iranians are working to cow and subvert the Gulf States. They're turning Iraq into a client state. They're pinching off Yemen. They're spreading cash and ammo onto Hamas. If I were the Saudis, I would indeed think I was being surrounded. |