8/24/23 Nasser Arrabyee on the State of Yemen Today

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Nasser Arrabyee joins Scott again to give an update on Yemen. The ceasefire has held for more than a year, but there is still much for the various factions to negotiate. Arrabyee gives an account of where things stand on the ground, and then the two take a step back and look at the broader geopolitical context. Discussed on the show: “‘Al-Qaeda’ attack kills secessionist commander and three fighters in Yemen” (Al Jazeera) Nasser Arrabyee is a Yemeni journalist based in Sana’a, Yemen. He is the owner and director of Yemen-Now.com. You can follow him on Twitter @narrabyee. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
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0:38.6	interview archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. our friend the journalist from Sena Yemen with an update. How you doing, Nasser?
0:57.0	Very good. Thank you very much for having me in your shop.
1:00.0	Okay, great. Yeah, happy to have you here. So there's so much to talk about first of all. We're more than a year into the ceasefire here and I gather that the heavy fighting has stopped the the Saudi land force and their airstrikes and the bulk of the war is over and yet we don't have a peace agreement yet.
1:21.0	I was wondering if you can tell us why not.
1:28.0	Well, it's, you know, it's not, we can say we are not in a truth, but we are in a truth.
1:42.2	So it's truce without truce we can say.
1:46.0	The agreement needs a lot of things to be done first because there are a lot of parties, local parties and regional
1:59.6	parties and international parties in the thing.
2:03.6	So it's not easy.
2:05.1	But I can say now in brief that there's strong intentions to end the war in Yemen.
2:15.0	This is the most important thing that I can say now because Saudi Arabia now is strongly willing to end this war for a lot of reasons and the most important of which is the so
2:38.9	called the 2030 vision of Mohammed bin Salman.
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