Meanwhile, Yemen continues to serve as a battleground in a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Iran has armed and trained the Houthis, and, though the rebels' brand of Shi'ism shares little with that practiced in Tehran, they have praised the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and held up Iran's Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, as a model to be emulated.
与此同时，也门依然是伊朗和沙特阿拉伯之间的代理战争的战场。伊朗武装并训练了胡塞运动，而尽管叛军的什叶派伊斯兰幌子与德黑兰的什叶派伊斯兰几乎没有共同之处，但他们歌颂伊朗伊斯兰共和国创始人霍梅尼，也支持其模仿对象、伊朗的黎巴嫩代理人真主党。