Perim Island emerges as strategic prize in widening Iran-Yemen conflict

Exclusive: This small island off Yemen is now a strategic prize in the widening Iran war

Perim Island, Yemen —  Stepping on to the Yemeni island of Perim is to relive history. Its barren sand and rock moonscape feels for all the world like the land that time forgot. Its location, however, has put it at the heart of a very modern conflict. For Perim Island sits in the Strait of Bab … The post Exclusive: This small island off Yemen is now a strategic prize in the widening Iran war appeared first on Egypt Independent.

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