# How Yemen fits into Saudi Arabia and Iran’s rivalry

https://mins.news/en/video/113383

- BBC News, 2026-10-23 21:05 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUGFsjjH_II

> The report explains how Yemen’s civil war developed into a conflict with global consequences, linking attacks on key shipping routes and the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia to effects on trade, oil prices and food supplies worldwide.

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