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Obama Struggles With a Messy Middle East
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U.S. Middle East policy in 2015 becomes one of weighing different options without taking sides as the Middle East descends into a messy sectarian conflict between Shiite Iran and its proxy allies with Sunni Arab states, with the remaining currrents of the Arab Spring remaining as background. If someone had asked the question what the world would look like without the U.S. exercizing its leadership role, this provides an answer in one part of the world after years of inaction and skepticism about the U.S. role in the Obama administration.
Houthis in Yemen - Iranian influence in Yemen and the Saudi response
03/23/2015
Houthi rebels from northern Yemen- belonging to an offshoot of Shiite Islam- oust the government in Sanaa and move south to take Taiz, an airforce base in the south, and Aden. Iran supports the Houthi rebels in Yemen and the country fractures between Sunnis and Shiites, with sectarian conflict. This is part of a wider conflict in the region with the Gulf States, Saudi, Turkey and other countries taking sides in the conflict in Syria and Iraq. In 2015 the differences between the Saudis and Qatar are being bridged with the expansion in Iran's influence in the region, including Syria and Iraq. The conflict in Yemen draws the Sunni side together against Shiite Iran with the Saudi airstrikes on targets in Yemen.
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