Yemen Emerges as Latest Battleground for Saudi Arabia and Iran

Eckart Woertz, a Gulf expert and senior research fellow at the Barcelona Center for International Affairs in Spain, said by phone: “This anti-Shiite sentiment is not just informed by politics but also by a virulent anti-Shiite stance of Wahhabism, so you have a lot of kind of sensitivities and images that inform such enmity.”

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