# Are Yemen’s Houthis an Iranian proxy?

https://mins.news/en/video/83367

- TRT World, 2026-10-02 11:34 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q6gx8BrXnk

> Fighting is intensifying in Yemen as Saudi-backed government forces attack the Ansarallah Houthis in Taiz. The Houthis deny claims that they targeted the Saudi city of Medina with a drone. Fawaz Gerges of the London School of Economics offers his analysis.

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