{"id":13776,"date":"2026-02-05T16:23:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/can-protests-inside-iran-sever-the-houthis-umbilical-cord\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:23:32","slug":"can-protests-inside-iran-sever-the-houthis-umbilical-cord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/can-protests-inside-iran-sever-the-houthis-umbilical-cord\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Protests Inside Iran Sever the Houthis\u2019 &#8216;Umbilical Cord\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themedialine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2252069300-scaled-e1770207880372.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<p class=\"mdl-section-article-content__subheader\">Figures and testimonies indicate Yemenis no longer see Iran\u2019s protests as distant or internal, but as a potential regional lever that could break Yemen\u2019s political and economic deadlock <\/p>\n<p>[SANAA] A large segment of Yemenis believe that Tehran has never been a mere bystander in their country\u2019s long war. Rather, it has been, and remains, a central actor in engineering the crisis. The Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis), through years of systematic political and military support, has consolidated its grip on the capital, Sanaa, and large swaths of northern Yemen,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/themedialine.org\/top-stories\/can-protests-inside-iran-sever-the-houthis-umbilical-cord\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figures and testimonies indicate Yemenis no longer see Iran\u2019s protests as distant or internal,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1159,1224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yemen","category-1224"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}