S8 Ep742: 6. Regional Realignments and the Houthi Threat. Malcolm Hoenlein warns the Gulf States face extreme vulnerability as Iran threatens their infrastructure. The Houthis remain a strategic reserve capable of closing the Bab al-Mandeb, while Europe continues t
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🗓️ 14 April 2026
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6. Regional Realignments and the Houthi Threat. Malcolm Hoenlein warns the Gulf States face extreme vulnerability as Iran threatens their infrastructure. The Houthis remain a strategic reserve capable of closing the Bab al-Mandeb, while Europe continues to marginalize itself by staying on the sidelines.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with Thetty's McCart of Americanness, and Malcolm Honlon Conference of President's major American Jewish organizations. |
| 0:22.6 | The rest of the Gulf is watching Malcolm. |
| 0:25.0 | UAE is very vulnerable. |
| 0:27.6 | So is Saudi Arabia, and they've been hit many times in the Iranian regime, the IRGC, is swearing |
| 0:34.3 | that if you close the Straits of Hormuz to our traffic, we will strike out at, |
| 0:40.0 | and what is left for their target list? |
| 0:42.0 | I believe it would be the desalination plants would be number one. |
| 0:45.2 | Is that correct, Malcolm? |
| 0:47.1 | The desalination plants and the airports and the pipeline, they did hit the Saudi pipeline, but it has been repaired, |
| 0:55.0 | which gives an alternative swords. But the Gulf, I think that the long-term implications are going to be the |
| 1:01.7 | greatest in regard to the Gulf states. Just today we hear about the tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, |
| 1:07.1 | because the drones that were launched against Saudi Arabia came from Iraq. The UAE Saudi differences, you know, remember we discussed it before the war, then they were put |
| 1:19.1 | aside a lot of these differences, including with Qatar, after it was attacked as well by Iran |
| 1:24.3 | and despite being an ally, that now I think we're going to see a complete |
| 1:29.7 | reshaping of relationships and alliances. |
| 1:31.9 | The Gulf Cooperation Council might fall apart or may be greatly diminished. |
| 1:35.9 | I think the OIC, other organizations, because they failed to intercede, the Gulf states |
| 1:40.7 | field, they were betrayed. |
| 1:42.7 | Saudi Arabia was less very much alone. UAE. Israel and the |
| 1:46.9 | UAE ties, I think, will be stronger than ever. I think for the same true with Bahrain and maybe |
| 1:51.4 | see some change vis-a-vis Qatar, though it's hard to know. And certainly Turkey will continue to push |
| 1:57.9 | the Muslim Brotherhood agenda as it is in Syria and elsewhere, |
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