What's driving Saudi airstrikes in Yemen?

Name: What's driving Saudi airstrikes in Yemen?
Uploaded: 2015-03-26T23:44:41Z
Duration: P450S
Description: Yemen has become the latest flashpoint in a long conflict between Tehran and Riyadh for regional dominance. What do the new developments mean for an already smoldering Sunni-Shia split in the Middle East? Judy Woodruff talks to David Rothkopf of Foreign Policy and Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council.

Clip: 03/26/2015 | 7m 30s

Yemen has become the latest flashpoint in a long conflict between Tehran and Riyadh for regional dominance. What do the new developments mean for an already smoldering Sunni-Shia split in the Middle East? Judy Woodruff talks to David Rothkopf of Foreign Policy and Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council.

Aired: 03/26/15

Rating: NR

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What's driving Saudi airstrikes in Yemen?

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