Ari Heistein

1 month ago | fdd.org | Daniel Ackerman |Ari Heistein

In 2019, before the COVID pandemic, a small delegation from Foundation for Defense of Democracies visited the Arabian Gulf. Amidst discussions of possible normalization with Israel and plans for economic diversification, we received a military briefing on Ansar Allah, the terrorist group also known as the Houthis. The briefing was at once jarring and familiar. A terror proxy of Iran had established a significant presence in civil war-torn Yemen.