Tell us how this ends
"A sane Iran policy would bet on the people and not the regime; it would avoid a risky war that would make Iraq look like a cakewalk. It would promote the rise of a strong and stable democratic Iran as an American national interest. And it would seek an eventual accommodation between a post-revolutionary Iran and a modernizing Saudi Arabia.
A second essential requirement is to avoid shooting Europe when we’re supposedly aiming at Iran. The most dangerous consequence of Trump’s policy is that it may force a confrontation with Europe by making its companies choose between doing business with Iran and the United States. Some Trump supporters may think this sounds smart, but it isn’t. It creates ill will, to no good purpose. And it may be a loser in international courts.
A third key task is to plan for economic instability in Iran and the Persian Gulf region. Iran is hustling to export oil while it can; traders in the bazaar are rushing to get money out of the country; the Iranian currency will weaken; unemployment and dislocation will grow. Trump may think he can benefit from economic chaos, and perhaps over time he will. But right now, the last thing the Middle East needs is another failed state — especially when it might widen the sectarian wars in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon, like a zipper being ripped open. Trump has almost guaranteed that normalcy won’t come anytime soon for Iran. By withdrawing from the nuclear agreement, he has put that country on a slow boil. Trump may hope to bend Iranian behavior without war. But there’s no sign that he has a plan for how to accomplish that, nor a strategy for ending the wars in Syria and Yemen."
|  | Opinion | Tell us how this endshttps://www.facebook.com/davidignatiusbooks The last thing the Middle East needs right now is another failed state. |
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Yemen crisis: Who is fighting whom?
|  | Yemen crisis: Who is fighting whom?Yemen has been devastated by a war between forces loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and those allied to ... |
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WaPo Editors: We Have to Help Destroy Yemen to Save It
While Kim and Trump meet, 250,000 could die in imminent Yemen attack
| | While Kim and Trump meet, 250,000 could die in imminent Yemen attackMargaret Coker & Eric Schmitt The UN and Red Cross withdrew their staff members from the besieged Yemeni port city of Hodeida, fearing that an... |
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Scourging Yemen
"Death tolls have become notoriously difficult to count accurately in Yemen. Three years of U.S.-supported blockades and bombardments have plunged the country into immiseration and chaos.
In their May 10threquest, the Saudis asked the UN to implement “all relevant Security Council resolutions in order to prevent the smuggling of additional weapons to the Houthis, and to hold violators of the arms embargo accountable.” The letter accuses Iran of furnishing the Houthi militias with stockpiles of ballistic missiles, UAVs and sea mines. The Saudis’ letter omits mention of massive U.S. weapons exports to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The Security Council resolutions invoked by the Saudis name the Houthis as a warring party in Yemen and call for an embargo, so the Houthis can’t acquire more weapons. But these Resolutions don’t name the Saudis as a warring party in Yemen, even though Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has, since March 2015, orchestrated Saudi involvement in the war, using billions of dollars of weapons sold to the Saudis and the UAE by the U.S. and the UK."
| | Scourging YemenOn May 10, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia informed the UN Security Council and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterre... |
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With Explicit US Backing, Saudi Attack on Yemen's Humanitarian Lifeline Begins
| | Aid Groups Issue Grave Warnings as Trump Considers Major Escalation of U...Common Dreams Aid groups warned that American support for a Saudi-led takeover of Yemen's main humanitarian port "would destro... |
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| | Amid Warnings Saudi Attack Will Plunge Yemen Into Famine, Urgent Demand ...Common Dreams "For years we have watched American politicians proclaim their concern over the immense human suffering caused b... |
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 | U.S. Deepens Role in Yemen Fight, Offers Gulf Allies Airstrike-Target As...Dion Nissenbaum The U.S. military is providing its Gulf allies with intelligence to fine-tune their list of airstrike targets in... |
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Responding to the early stages of the attack—which began with an estimated 30 Saudi airstrikes within half an hour, guided by US military intelligence—Win Without War wrote on Twitter that the attack is “a dark moment of shame for the United States. We could have stopped this.”
|  | Win Without War on Twitter“A dark moment of shame for the United States. We could have stopped this. Our hearts are in Yemen tonight. #Sav... |
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|  | Arab states launch biggest assault of Yemen war with attack on main...Mohammed Ghobari A Saudi-led alliance of Arab states launched the largest assault of Yemen's war on Wednesday with an attack on t... |
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Heartbreaking. Suffering for Yemen on an even grander scale with blessing of @SecPompeo @realDonaldTrump. US Congress must step in and demand an end to this complicity
For all those concerned about Trump abdicating American leadership/credibility at the G7 & w North Korea, you should also be expressing shock and outrage at Trump's green light (& military enablement!) for the UAE's offensive that will likely kill 250,000 in #Yemen. #SaveHodeida
|  | Hassan Hassan حَسَنْ on Twitter““We gave U.N. special envoy Martin Griffiths 48 hours to convince the Houthis to withdraw from the port and cit... |
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Hodeidah is currently home to around 600,000 civilians, and around 80 percent of all humanitarian aid that flows into Yemen arrives at the city’s port, which is currently controlled by Houthi rebels. International observers have warned that a military fight over the port city could halt life-saving food and medicine and cause the starvation of millions.
| | Saudi-led forces begin assault on Yemen port city of HodeidaDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's exiled government began an assault We... |
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“Some civilians are entrapped, others forced from their homes,” Jolien Veldwijk—acting country director for the humanitarian group CARE, which is still operating in Yemen—told Reuters on Wednesday as the US-backed Saudi assault on Hodeida began. “We thought it could not get any worse, but unfortunately we were wrong.”