When the Yemeni capital Sanaa fell under the control of a militant movement called the
Houthis ....
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| The World According To Riyadh .... |
..... who are followers of the Zaydi branch of Shia Islam, a hardline Iranian
MP was widely quoted in the Sunni Arabic media as having boasted
that Iran now 'controlled four Arab capitals' - 'Beirut' (Lebanon), 'Damascus' (Syria), 'Baghdad' (Iraq) and
'Sanaa' (Yemen) ... plus of course their own Shia Persian capital 'Tehran'.
