Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty:
“Whatever is being asked by the Saudis, of course we will respond.
Without any reservation we are providing all kind of support.”
Egypt has strong reasons to act.
Houthi control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait area is already hurting Suez Canal revenues. But Cairo remains historically cautious about Yemen entanglement.
Nasser’s 1962–67 intervention with 70,000 troops became Egypt’s “Vietnam.”
