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Items by Yassin Al-Tamimi
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Yemen and the repercussions of the Saudi-Iran rapprochement
The unexpected has just happened before our eyes. Emerging superpower China has activated its diplomacy successfully in the Middle East — the traditional role of the US — and has reconciled its two main allies in the region, Saudi Arabia and Iran, after talks lasting several days in Beijing....
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Will coalition supporting legitimacy disintegrate into bilateral agreements with a weak authority?
The past week has witnessed remarkable developments on the Yemeni scene, the most prominent of which was the signing of a surprising agreement for military and security cooperation and combating terrorism, between the UAE and Yemen, on the side-lines of a visit by the Minister of Defence, Lieutenant General...
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Why are the Houthis negotiating for the Iranian ambassador’s departure from Sanaa?
Hasan Irlu was appointed by Iran as its ambassador to the Houthi group in Yemen. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officer is in the headlines because the Houthis have asked the opposing Arab coalition to allow him to leave the country and return to Tehran. I do not know...
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The new Yemeni government is what Saudi Arabia wanted, not what Hadi wanted
The government of technocrats was finally sworn in before Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi on Saturday. The ceremony was held in Riyadh, and not in Yemen’s temporary political capital, Aden. This means that the government has already fallen below Yemeni expectations from the first day of it assuming its...
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Separatism in Yemen under the coalition umbrella
When Yemen’s President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi decided to appoint Brigadier Aidarus Al-Zubaidi as governor of Aden and Colonel Shallal Shaye as director of the police, only 24 hours after the assassination of the former governor, these two men were in the UAE on a political and security mission to...
