By staff writer

How Yemen trapped Saudi Arabia in a double chokehold

Sanaa turns twelve years of starvation into counter-deterrence

TEHRAN — When Saudi warplanes struck the port city of Al-Hudaydah and Kamaran Island on the night of July 24, the royal court in Riyadh believed it was projecting strength. In reality, the strikes on telecommunications facilities and coastal positions merely exposed the strategic desperation of a monarchy trapped in its own arrogance.