Katty Kay
speaker
12,917 appearances
58 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 3d ago
Katty Kay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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in the Middle East where a war that was started against Iran, a war of choice, it should be said, by the White House against the Iranians has now expanded effectively to another front with the Houthis in Yemen attacking the Saudis and the Saudi oil infrastructure and the Americans
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ending up saying to the Houthis, who have long been seen as a proxy for the Iranians, they're not the Iranians, but they have been seen as a proxy for the Iranians, they have Iranian backing in Yemen, and the Americans basically saying to them at a meeting in the US embassy in Muscat, Oman, we are not going to retaliate against you.
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They could have put in brackets,
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because we are overstretched in the Strait of Hormuz and we've already taken on the Iranians and that is enough.
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We have enough on our plate and we are spending millions on interceptors as the Iranians strike our bases in places like Jordan in the last few days.
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And the message to America's longtime ally and a very good friend of the president and a very good friend of the president's children
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Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, when he went and he called Donald Trump and said, please, will you retaliate against the Houthis with strikes?
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Reportedly, the message to Mohammed bin Salman was, no, we'll give you intelligence, but we are overstretched and you will have to deal with this one by yourself.
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So,
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We're in an extraordinary situation, I think, in the Middle East where this conflict has expanded beyond ways that Donald Trump probably imagined when he launched those strikes back in February.
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The US, just by having this reported meeting with the Houthis at their embassy in Oman, have elevated the Houthis to being an international player rather than a kind of band of
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rabble-rousers in Yemen.
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They've put them at the table opposite them.
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Any time the Americans sit down with a group, whether it's Kim Jong-un or the Houthis, that elevates that group and gives them international standing.
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The Houthis have not backed down on their demands to the Saudis to have control of various cities and ports.
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So I see this as a win for the Houthis, but the biggest loser in all of this, apart from America's reputation with its allies, are all of those Gulf partners who are now looking at the United States and saying, we don't know who you're going to defend and who you're not going to defend and when, depending on your own situation.
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I think this is a very precarious moment for the Middle East, but also for America's reputation in that part of the world.
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Why do you think MBS's pleas fell on deaf ears with his friend in the White House?
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Well, Israelis were also sending money to Hamas, by the way.
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Right, but they have said that they'll hit Saudi ships coming out of the Red Sea.
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