{"id":8925,"date":"2011-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brookings.alley.test\/research\/regulated-escalation-expected-in-yemen\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T15:26:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:26:12","slug":"regulated-escalation-expected-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"on-the-record","link":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/on-the-record\/regulated-escalation-expected-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulated Escalation Expected in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Protests that began in January to unseat Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh are expected to continue as Saleh remains resistant to a deal brokered by Persian Gulf leaders that would allow him to step down with immunity. In an interview with the <\/em>Los Angeles Times<em>, Ibrahim Sharqieh discusses what to expect in the coming days in Yemen. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Los Angeles Times: <\/strong>How will tomorrow be different from past protests in Yemen?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ibrahim Sharqieh:<\/strong> Tomorrow is going to be particularly important. Today we have seen a new development in the crisis in Yemen, what I call &#8220;regulated escalation.&#8221; The youth for the first time have announced that they are going to go next to the government offices in Sana and the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>L.A. Times: <\/strong>Do you think the protests will be peaceful?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharqieh:<\/strong> There is a risk here that once they march toward the government offices in Taiz and Sana and Hudaydah this might develop into a crisis. Security forces might respond by shooting<\/p>\n<p><strong>L.A. Times:<\/strong> The Gulf Cooperation Council has tried to broker an agreement between Saleh and opposition leaders &#8212; will they succeed?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharqieh:<\/strong> We\u2019re seeing missed chances. So far it doesn\u2019t look like it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>L.A. Times:<\/strong> Why &#8212; because Saleh will not accept the deal?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharqieh:<\/strong> He backed off. He knows where this will lead, that he will have to face the protesters because they will continue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/babylonbeyond\/2011\/05\/yemen-regulated-escalation-expected-friday.html\">Read the full interview at LATimes.com \u00bb <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8925","on-the-record","type-on-the-record","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/on-the-record\/8925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/on-the-record"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/on-the-record"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}