Not really.
A brief history of Yemen in the past 200 years:
- The north was always Zaidi Shia (though they are Shia their belief system is quite different from 12er Shia in Iran -- like the differences between Baptists and Methodists or Catholic and Orthodox)
- In the 1800s the Wahabbi-Saudi alliance twice destroyed Shia shrines and mosques
- In the 1914-1928 period the Saudi-Wahabbis (with British help) defeated the Hashemite rulers, traditional rulers of the Hejaz/Mecca-Medina area since the 8th century and drove them to become kings of Jordan and Iraq
- The Saudi-Wahabbis also invaded Yemen and took a large chunk out of the north of Yemen but were defeated by theZaidis
- Post independence Southern Yemen (which was/is majority Sunni but had a large Jewish population until the 80s) became the Socialist (communist) state of South Yemen. North Yemen was a theocratic Zaidi state
- After the USSR collapsed, the two united
- After the "Arab spring" the Saudis tried to basically invade the Yemenis and force their own dictator on them
- The trillion $ saudi military got their @$$#$ handed to them by barefoot ZAidis
The Sauds need to stop their little imperialist venture or they will get more missiles lobbed at them