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Saudi strikes at rebels in Yemen

12 April 2012

Saudi Arabia today carried out air strikes against Shia rebel "infiltrators" in Yemen.

The Yemeni government has accused Shia Iran of helping the militants who, in turn, accuse Sunni Saudi Arabia, Iran's fiercest regional rival, of bombing them.

Diplomats fear a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

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