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S8 Ep1129: Edmund Fitton-Brown — The truce between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis may be over following strikes on Sanaa airport, with retaliatory attacks potentially targeting major Saudi international airports and oil facilities; despite Iranian influence, the new I

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 14 July 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Edmund Fitton-Brown — The truce between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis may be over following strikes on Sanaaairport, with retaliatory attacks potentially targeting major Saudi international airports and oil facilities; despite Iranianinfluence, the new Iraqi prime minister appears to be drifting toward the United States for security and stability. (12)

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This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. I'm John Batchew with Edmund Fitten Brown of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a former ambassador from the UK to Yemen, former UN official through the whole region of turmoil these last decades, and now the Houthis.

1:00.1

In these last hours, we learned the Saudi authority fired in a missile or drone.

1:08.4

I do not have clarity into Sana Airport. This is in North Yemen.

1:14.3

Sana, the former capital, is, well, it's still the capital, but just not occupied by the people

1:20.6

who are legitimate government. It's instead dominated by the Houthis, a renegade group that has

1:26.7

missiles and drones and skill and has threatened

1:29.7

routinely, not only shipping in the Red Sea, but the choke point of Babam and Depp.

1:35.0

Now that they have been fired upon by the Saudis for reasons having to do with the dispute between

1:40.7

those two, the Houthis and the Saudi Arabian kingdom, now that we have to

1:47.0

consider that the Houthis are lighting up again because, according to the reporting,

1:51.4

they vow retaliation.

1:53.1

What does this look like, Edmund, when the Houthis say retaliation?

1:56.5

Is that Babel Mendeb?

1:57.8

Is that a firing back at Riyadh, reawakening that war? What does it look like?

2:05.0

Yeah. So, well, I mean, the first thing to say is, you know, just quickly what's happened here.

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