When Will Iran Play the Houthi Card?

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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