Elham Manea
Swiss-American academic
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Riyadh is likely to combine military pressure and the rebuilding of anti-Houthi forces to regain leverage, before reopening indirect negotiations with the Houthis and seeking a parallel regional understanding with Iran,
- Professor Elham Manea wrote in an analysis of the conflict for the Sana’a Center, a Yemeni think tankNewsweeknewsweek.com/saudi/arabia…
Now, it is providing greater military, technical and logistical support to the internationally recognized government and forces aligned with it,
- Manea saidDeutsche Welledw.com/en/iran…
The Houthi movement is militarily and institutionally much stronger,
- Manea saidDeutsche Welledw.com/en/iran…
At present, I consider the second scenario more likely,
- Manea saidDeutsche Welledw.com/en/iran…
Since the 2022 truce, Riyadh's priority has been to extricate itself from the Yemen war and create the regional stability needed for its broader economic transformation 'Vision 2030',
- Manea saidDeutsche Welledw.com/en/military…
The current escalation appears to be driven primarily by the Houthis,
- Elham Manea, a political scientist and adjunct professor at the University of Zurich specializing in Middle East and Gulf studies, told DWDeutsche Welledw.com/en/military…
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