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- "Hold Your Fire!" (hosted by Richard) featured Crisis Group experts Yasmine Farouk and Hamidreza Azizi in a discussion spanning the Yemen war, attacks on Saudi Arabia, and Iran's regional strategy.
- The episode framed these issues around Gulf security and diplomacy over the Strait of Hormuz, treating the flashpoints as interconnected rather than isolated.
- Crisis Group fielded two specialists with regional expertise - Farouk and Azizi - to connect military, political, and diplomatic threads across the Yemen-Saudi-Iran triangle.
Why it matters: Crisis Group's analysts addressed multiple flashpoints - Yemen war, attacks on Saudi Arabia, Iran's strategy - in a single discussion anchored on the Strait of Hormuz, where Gulf security dynamics intersect with one of the world's key shipping routes. The Strait of Hormuz framing matters because any escalation in that corridor carries direct consequences for energy markets and global shipping.
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