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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Grateful for @gulfstatesinst.bsky.social team for publishing my argument on Houthis' views of the Mecca pact. Despite their ability to disrupt, Houthis are concerned because additional support in defending the Kingdom means that they will face a longer war than what they initially calculated for.

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Segment from my CNN Newsroom interview yesterday with Ben Hunte: Iran-backed #Houthis escalation with #Riyadh and attacks on King Khalid Airport are an asymmetric bid to force #Saudi Arabia to abandon frontline support for Yemen's government. Tehran is weaponizing #Bab-al-Mandab to mirror #Hormuz.

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"We already feel dead, there was already despair... We feel as if we are cursed." A resident who fled Taiz, speaking to This AP report sheds light on the broader picture of ground fighting and the horrific situation in Taiz as a result of the Iran-backed Houthis' siege. apnews.com/article/yeme...

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Fear strikes Yemen's 3rd largest city Taiz as Houthi rebels encircle it in a new siege

Houthi rebels have encircled the city of Taiz, Yemen, causing fear among its more than 1 million residents.

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I made an app on the military developments and latest in Yemen, Saudi developments, and the Houthis' escalation. I am updating the app daily. Feel free to try it at map.ideologymachine.com Comments and feedback welcome.

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Taiz cut off, coast contested: Yemen, Sep–Oct 2026

An interactive 3D timeline of the fighting around Taiz and the Red Sea coast. Analysis by Fatima Abo Alasrar, The Ideology Machine.

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The tragedy at Riyadh’s airport yesterday shows a deeper collision beyond the deaths and the casualties: Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 versus the Houthis’ Vision 1979. My latest on the logic of Houthi escalation. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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The Houthis Bring Vision 1979 to Riyadh

The strike on King Khalid International Airport was a direct attempt to drag Saudi Arabia’s economic future back into a half-century of ideological war.

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Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In the aftermath of the undoubtedly game changing attack on Riyadh airport, I’d reco following @yemenifatima.bsky.social. Here’s her 10/4 post on Yemen’s open war with the Houthis, which is now expanding: www.ideologymachine.com/p/yemen-decl...

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Yemen Declared War on the Houthis. Can It Win?

What the PLC's new offensive faces on the ground, in the region, and in Washington.

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If Tehran continues to engineer escalations through the #Houthis to bypass maritime interdiction, the threat of a full closing of Bab al-Mandeb becomes real. My raw take on the aftermath of the Saudi/Yemen govt strike on Sana'a airport: www.ideologymachine.com/p/the-red-se...

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The Red Sea is Exposed

The Sana’a airport strike trapped Riyadh, secured Iran an un-inspected corridor, and is pretext for Houthis and Tehran to escalate in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandeb.

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

War is a very costly way to end up exactly where you started. Epic Fury's stated objectives seem to have been just an excuse. The U.S.–Iran MOU is a Memorandum of Undoing. Every demand that began the war dissolved. My analysis of what was undone and what was quietly traded away.

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How to Understand the Memorandum of Undoing

A war that set out to undo Iran’s power ended by undoing its own objectives and easing the pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran before the final bargain had begun.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026

Sen. Chris Murphy: "It's a multi-billion dollar payoff to Iran in exchange for nothing ... Iran won. Trump surrendered."

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Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

"When missiles and drones become constrained, you substitute with mass. When external supply chains become unreliable, you exploit the one input that doesn’t require imports: the population of northern #Yemen," reads @yemenifatima.bsky.social's new research. www.ideologymachine.com/p/the-red-de...

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The Red Death: Iran-backed Houthis Prepare for a Ground War in Yemen.

Iran-backed Houthis spent months converting northern Yemen's entire civilian infrastructure into a conscription apparatus. The force they built is for a war no one is planning for yet.

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Renew Democracy Initiative @renewdemocracy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“Packaging propaganda as entertainment is hardly original, even if the medium of a Danish toy brand is.” RDI’s @yemenifatima.bsky.social examines the latest Iranian state-sponsored propaganda—in Lego form.

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Iran's Most Potent Weapon Against Trump: Lego

A lesson in plastic propaganda.

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Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

APNewsAlert: WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel has agreed to the terms of the two-week US-Iran ceasefire agreement, White House official says.

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Tonight, Trump announced a ceasefire. On Sunday, I argued the IRGC was already moving toward a deal, Zarif's Foreign Affairs essay was a concession list in revolutionary gift wrap. The regime doesn't survive because of its ideology; it survives despite it. www.ideologymachine.com/p/the-myth-o...

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The Myth of Iran's Ideological Straightjacket

Javad Zarif published a concession list in Foreign Affairs and called it victory. The Islamic Republic has been doing this for forty years.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A French container ship has successfully passed through the Strait of Hormuz, the first French container vessel to do so since the Iran war began.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/03/2026

“NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL” — Trump draws a red line for Netanyahu (sorry, having trouble with alt text on mobile)

Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran. A relatively small section of the whole has been hit. The United States knew nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen. Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility. NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar - In which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before. I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications that it will have on the future of Iran, but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate

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Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

APNewsAlert: WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump threatens to blow up South Pars gas field if #Iran attacks #Qatar again, as war roils global energy markets.

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

IRGC Strike on the US Embassy in Riyadh tonight crossed a threshold from retaliatory signaling into self-entrapment. Diplomatic sites are not interchangeable w/ military targets. This will reduce the space for restraint, not just from Washington but the Gulf as well.

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Fatima Abo Alasrar (@ideologymachine)

The Revolutionary Guards of Iran appear to have miscalculated massively by Striking the US Embassy in Riyadh few hours ago (March 2). The drone strike crosses a threshold from retaliatory signaling in...

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Oil Prices rose by 50% in Europe today after Qatar's water and energy plants got attacked by the IRGC as it halted its LNG production.

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Military intervention in Iran has exposed the fragility of a system long thought to be impenetrable. Khamenei didn’t just lead a regime; he built ideological architecture as infrastructure. But as the smoke clears,the "operating system" is glitching. My latest www.ideologymachine.com/p/operation-...

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Khamenei Killed in Tehran, What Happens to Iran's Proxy Network Now?

Ali Khamenei is dead and his command structure with him. But the system he built is still running, and no one in Washington is clear on what comes next.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The Southern Transitional Council is Testing Riyadh's Red Lines in Yemen The STC's declaration is a stress test of Saudi patience, and a gamble with Yemen’s last pockets of stability. @yemenifatima.bsky.social www.ideologymachine.com/p/the-southe...

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The Southern Transitional Council is Testing Riyadh's Red Lines in Yemen

The STC's declaration is a stress test of Saudi patience, and a gamble with Yemen’s last pockets of stability.

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

When mass spectacle replaces journalism, when lectures get interrupted for weapons training, when dissent becomes treason, you're no longer dealing with a functioning society. You've got a staging ground. Mass rallies in #Yemen reveal only Houthis' control: www.ideologymachine.com/p/manufactur...

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Manufacturing Obedience in the Name of Gaza: The Reality Behind the Mass Rallies in Houthi areas

How the Houthis turned Gaza solidarity into a compulsory roll-call of loyalty in Yemen.

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AGSI @gulfstatesinst.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The Houthis’ “Midri” campaign is narrative warfare, calibrated to obscure facts, disorient analysts, and erode accountability on the international level. @yemenifatima.bsky.social

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See Something? Say Nothing: The Houthis’ Criminalization of Truth

The Houthis’ “Midri” campaign isn’t just about silencing Yemenis, it’s about blinding the outside world.

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Treasury’s sanctions drive home what’s been obvious for years: when #Houthis & their backers cried “blockade,” over #Hodeidah it wasn’t just about civilians or aid; it was about protecting their war economy, fueling a militia’s rise over #Yemen’s collapse. home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...

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Treasury Targets Vessels Delivering Oil Derivatives to the Houthis

WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is targeting three vessels and their owners for providing support to Ansarallah, commonly known as the Hout...

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

A massive explosion, possibly linked to ammonium nitrate, the same chemical that caused the 2020 Beirut blast, struck Iran’s Bandar Abbas port in #Iran this morning. Over 500 injuries; the death toll is around 4 for now and rising. It's an absolute disaster that shows the fragility of the regime.

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DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The U.S. and other outside actors should "stop asking if Yemen is 'ready for peace' and instead ask if the world is finally ready to treat Yemen as more than someone else's problem," @yemenifatima.bsky.social argues in DAWN's Democracy in Exile.

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‘I Hope It Will Not Be Another Afghanistan.’ What Is the Endgame in Yemen?

Democracy in Exile hosted a wide-ranging conversation among Yemeni experts on the past decade of conflict in Yemen and what the future may hold.

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Atlantic Council @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The Suez Canal is the fastest sea route between Asia and Europe, attracting about 12 to 15 percent of worldwide trade. In an issue brief, the Atlantic Council’s Racha Helwa and Perrihan Al-Riffai explain why the canal’s security matters for the world:

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A lifeline under threat: Why the Suez Canal’s security matters for the world

Any disruption to the Suez Canal can have outsized impacts on global commerce and energy markets, as have occurred in recent years.

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Summer Ahmed سمر احمد @summerahmed.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

detention of UN personnel by the Houthi terrorists in North Yemen. The international community must shame the Houthis and hold them accountable for their violations and reject the Houthis’ weaponization of aid, and the use of threats and kidnappings as a bargaining chip.

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The second #Signal leak that was just covered by @nytimes.com isn’t just a D.C. drama, it has an impact on the ground. Genuinely concerned about how this could disrupt US operations in #Yemen and shape perceptions of Yemen policy. #Houthis #Iran #Pentagon www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

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Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat

The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.

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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

This Week in Democracy in Exile: • Zine Labidine Ghebouli on what Trump 2.0 means for North Africa. • Alex Martin Astley reports from Tripoli on how Syria's sectarian violence echoes in Lebanon. • @afrahnasser.bsky.social & @yemenifatima.bsky.social on Yemen's endgame. mailchi.mp/dawnmena.org...

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This Week in Democracy in Exile: What Trump 2.0 Means for North Africa

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

1/2 #China's military-linked satellite firm CGSTL is providing #IRGC-backed #Houthis with imagery to target US ships in the Red Sea, the same company that was previously sanctioned for aiding Wagner. www.ft.com/content/628b...

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US says Chinese company is helping Houthis target American warships

Satellite group linked to People’s Liberation Army has supplied images to Iran-backed group in Yemen, say officials

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Basem Ganani is pretty reliably anti-Houthi. Looks like the US is going to try to rerun the SLC's 2015-2017 only stupider

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The US is underestimating how many Yemenis are quietly on its side. They want the #Houthis out and support strikes, but not like this. Ras Isa wasn’t just a fuel hub. It was a civilian artery. Keep hitting civilians, and that support will flip. This war won’t be won with airstrikes alone.

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This oil spill will become a strategic bargaining chip for #Houthis. The Houthis are likely to demand concessions in exchange for granting Red Sea access, even for environmental cleanup. Nothing in their territory is apolitical, not aid nor even disaster response.

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Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

So many updates from #Yemen. Most of all, the strike on Ras el Issa deserves to be unpacked. For my first post, I want to shed light on the context and how things are unfolding post the airstrike. It’s not just a military even, it’s a window into how narratives are built and how power is maintained.

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