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Remember. when irans supreme leader says "death to america" we should listen. iran is the most active state sponsor of terrorism. theyve worked closely with our enemies to kill americans and to kill our allies and look, president obama has pointed to yemen as the beacon of his counterterrorism policies but were on the verge of a full scale proxy war between iran and sunni arab states. so the concern for everyone is that president obama has really been blinded to the definite thal were dealing wi...

Four competing factions vying for the same resources and same control of the land and so far weve seen massive air power brought to bear on this country. does this mean there will be a ground invasion? the saudis have also indicated they might go that far. lets project a little into the future. say the saudis dispatch ground forces they may have already done special forces and covert opp os but does that mean they go head to head with iranian revolutionary guard? a proxy war becomes a hot war be...

Protect the border with yemen to stop any incursion. the saudis making clear they will not allow the houthis to get more iranian weapons. >> we have targeted the air force, we have targeted air bases, we have targeted ballistic missiles. we have targeted heavy weapons depots. >> reporter: u.s. naval warships on nearby patrol keep watch for any iranian weapons being smuggled in. now if this becomes a full-blown proxy war, between the u.s. and iran the worry is in the middle will be that al qaeda ...

Against whats going on. or is this just chaos, and were seeing who takes over what in this place? >> it resembles more chaos. when the president fled sanaa, the capital city things were going downhill. now that the saudis have engaged in a military action there, this is a proxy war between iran who supports the houthi who took over the government in sanaa, they are a shia-based organization. and now you are seeing this flare-up between the sunnis in yemen, that have conflicted loyalties to the g...

Power for eight years. he did nothing. he was a blowhard. are we going to be frightened by words of some character in iran. >> what do you mean blowhard? the blowhard that supplied hezbollah rockets and other terror groups rockets to fight a proxy war against israel. theyre fighting a proxy war now against saudi arabia in yemen. this is all iran, pat, what part are you missing? >> ill tell you what sean. in iraq, iran is fighting isis and al qaeda. in syria theyre fighting isis on behalf of assa...

The government they pushed out there was sunni. many of the nations have mixes of sunnis and shiites in them. any way that this conflict plays out has a chance of affecting the overall mix and influence of those religions here. its all islam, but theres a power struggle going on. secondly, this is a proxy war between two big powers. saudi arabia just to the north of yemen there and iran over here. again, iran is shiite, saudi arabia is sunni. however this plays out in yemen will have an impact o...

Defense is going its own way. the breaking point was yemen where saudi arabia launched more air strikes against rebels who are pushing dangerously close to the saudi boarder. on meet the press the saudi ambassador discussed how far the saudi kingdom is willing to go. >> why would you send ground troops? >> we havent made a decision to do that so far. so far its been an air campaign and we have in a plan in motion that were executing. >> reporter: that plan also appears to be a proxy war with ira...

Leaders in egypt today called for the united standing of the army. it would stand against iran. theres a proxy war under way thats big and expanding with other sauni nations and the administration is trying and failing to play both sides of it and cobnfusing the friends. richard with nbc news. >> i am joined with the saudi ambassador for the united states. welcome. >> thanks. great to be here. >> what is saudi objective in getting involved in yemen? >> we are there to protect the people of yemen...

Isis and the concern is that were powering the militia groups. as long as syria is the exporter of instability, its going to have tough for the region. >> thank you for your viewpoints on this. i appreciate it. >> thank you. they have established a joint military force as saudi lead air strikes on rebels continue across yemen. despite the air strikes theyre going south and a government strong hold that the countries president fled to earlier this week. as richard angler explain the u.s. is stu...

Sir, welcome. >> pleasure to be here, brooke. >> you are also part of john kerrys advisory board. you are not here with me speaking on behalf of isib. >> thats right. >> i spoke to fareed zakaria about all of these complications at the end of last week talking about the u.s. dealing with the nuclear deal with iran and how the u.s. is fighting a proxy war with iran in the middle east. he actually compared it with the cold war. i found this fascinating. take a listen. >> when we were trying to do ...