The Houthis Are Not Fighting Iran’s War

Tehran's regional network is becoming less a proxy force than a coalition of autonomous partners pursuing their own agendas.

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The Iran war now has a Houthi problem. Iranian attacks on three commercial tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on July 8 broke the fragile ceasefire declared only a few weeks earlier, prompting the U.S. to abandon restraint and resume near-nightly airstrikes throughout Iran. Tehran retaliated with ballistic missile and drone attacks against U.S. bases […]

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Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst (2015-2018) with Geopolitical Futures. A strategic forecaster, Dr. Bokhari is now a Senior Resident Fellow with the Middle East Policy Council and a Senior Director at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington, DC. Bokhari also teaches Eurasian Geopolitics at Georgetown University's Security Studies Program. Previously, has served as the Coordinator for Central Asia Studies at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @Kamran Bokhari