CAIRO (AP) — A volley of fire between the Iranian-backed Houthis and Saudi Arabia has threatened to upend a 2022 truce in Yemen and open another front in the already expanding war in the Middle East after the collapse of the ceasefire deal between the U.S. and Iran.
“Yemen today faces a greater risk of renewed large-scale conflict than at any point since the U.N.-brokered truce of April 2022, ” U.N. envoy Hans Grundberg warned.
The escalation, he said, risks “jeopardizing the gains of the 2022 truce … while also drawing the country into a broader regional confrontation, with devastating consequences for its people.”
Grundberg said he has engaged in intensive talks with Yemeni parties and regional governments to avert further escalation.
The Houthi turned down a compromise offer
The tit-for-tat attacks started July 13 with a Saudi airstrike that hit the runway of the airport in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, preventing the landing of an Iranian flight carrying a high-ranking Houthi delegation.
Flying a flight without prior permission from the Saudi-led coalition — a decade-long, war-related requirement — was an attempt by the Houthis to establish a new reality on the ground, challenging the coalition’s control over Yemeni airspace.
feasibility of importing nuclear fuel. The United States proposed that Iran halt its enrichment program and secure its fuel needs through imports. Strategically, this proposal is reminiscent of the “external control of sensitive technology” model, previously applied to countries like South Korea and Argentina. Conversely, while rejecting this proposal, Iran emphasized its sovereign right to enrichment, deeming it legitimate under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency. This stance by Iran should be analyzed within the framework of a “nuclear balancing strategy.” Conventional deterrence theory and Buzan and Waever’s model of “identity-based securitization” can provide a suitable analytical framework for understanding Tehran’s insistence on this right, where nuclear technology is perceived not merely as a tool of power but as a component of international standing and the political identity of Iran.
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