Saudi-Arabia Goes to Battle: The US-Iran Strategy Under Pressure
Yemen is not the ideal country for foreigners to intervene in. It was in 1962, when a Sunni general, Abdallah Sallal, brought down the Shi'ite Imam Al Badr, called upon Egypt of Gamal Abd Al Nasser to come to his help, and the rest is history. Nasser lost his aura as the undisputed leader of the Arab world, and finally in 1965 he called his troops back. Two years later came the disaster of the June 1967 war. The Wahabbis of Saudi Arabia then supported the Shi'ite Imam because they did not want a revolutionary pro-Egyptian regime on their ...
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