Another major war is breaking out in the Middle East

Thursday, March 26, 2015
By Paul Martin

KHALED ABDALLAH AND SAMI ABOUDI, REUTERS
BusinessInsider.com
MAR. 26, 2015

Warplanes from Saudi Arabia and Arab allies struck Shi’ite Muslim rebels fighting to oust Yemen’s president on Thursday, in a major gamble by the world’s top oil exporter to check Iranian influence in its backyard without direct military backing from Washington.

Iran denounced the surprise assault on its proteges in the Houthi militia group and made clear Saudi Arabia’s deployment of a Sunni coalition against its Shi’ite enemies would complicate efforts to end a conflict that will only inflame the sectarian hatreds already fuelling wars around the Middle East.

The Saudi intervention marked a major escalation of the Yemen crisis, in which Iran backs the Houthis, and Sunni Muslim monarchies in the Gulf support President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and his fellow Sunni loyalists in Yemen’s south.

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