Beirut, Lebanon
CNN
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The stakes within the Middle East have hardly ever been larger.
Simmering tensions reached new ranges on Friday when the US and UK launched strikes on Houthi fighters in Yemen, in an effort to pressure them to halt their months-long assaults within the Red Sea. A day later, the US unilaterally carried out recent strikes, focusing on a Houthi radar facility.
The strikes threat additional fanning the flames of a wider regional battle that neither the US nor the Houthis’ backers in Iran seem to need.
Since Hamas’ October 7 assaults on Israel and the Israeli offensive in Gaza that adopted, Iran’s so-called axis of resistance — a community of Shia militias that span 4 Middle Eastern international locations — has been activated from one finish of the area to the opposite.
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“That is a strategic problem that the US is coping with now,” stated Momtaz. “They want to revive freedom of navigation and safe worldwide commerce within the Red Sea whereas persevering with to guarantee that the opposite fronts do not escalate into an actual conflict.”