Analysis of Iranian activities since 1979 has been plagued first and foremost by the misperception that the system established by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was ever meant to be limited to Iran. In fact, once conquered by the ayatollahs, Iran became a
Houthis | Yemen’s rebels and revivalists
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January 24, 2021 12:42 IST
Ansar Allah, which began as a Zaydi socio-religious movement, is now the country’s strongest war machine that has withstood Saudi attacks
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Ansar Allah, which began as a Zaydi socio-religious movement, is now the country’s strongest war machine that has withstood Saudi attacks
After the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, when anti-Americanism was at its peak in the Muslim world, several Islamist organisations had tried to mobilise supporters riding the public sentiments. For the Houthis in northern Yemen, it was a tipping point. What started as a religious revivalist movement aimed at restoring the fading glory of the Zaydi sect of Islam, the Houthis, under the leadership of Hussein al-Houthi, were turning political. When the second intifada broke out in the Palestinian territories in 2000, the Houthis staged solidarity protests. They mobilised supporters against the U.S.�