Gregg Carlstrom
speaker
372 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Gregg Carlstrom’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is the biggest shift in Yemen's war for a number of years.
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Greg Karlstrom is a Middle East correspondent for The Economist.
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It's an embarrassment for Saudi Arabia, which has spent months talking up a new offensive against the Houthis.
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It's a source of new leverage for Iran in its war with America.
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It adds pressure on oil prices.
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The Saudis won't want to accept Houthi control of Yemen's coast, but pushing them back will be difficult.
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We haven't, even though the civil war in Yemen has been going on since 2014.
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That's when the Houthis first made a push out of their strongholds in the north and seized a large part of the country, including the capital.
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The following year, a Saudi-led coalition invaded Yemen to try and push the Houthis back.
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But the war devolved into a stalemate.
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And since 2022, the front lines have been largely frozen.
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That's when a ceasefire took effect.
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The Saudis and Houthis have spent the past few years trying to negotiate a deal that would end the war for good.
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That effort was also unsuccessful, and so it all seemed to have devolved into a stalemate.
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That started to change, though, earlier this year, once America and Israel went to war with Iran, which has backed the Houthis for many years.
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Iran started pressuring its allies in Yemen to join the fray, to close Bebel Mandab, which is the
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waterway that connects the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean.
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In July, they sent a delegation of military advisors to Yemen to work with the Houthis.
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The Saudis went so far as bombing the airport in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, to prevent that plane with Iranian advisors from landing.
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After the Saudis did that, it seemed like war was back on.
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