article_snippet: Hadi also underlined the regional dimensions of the conflict, calling the HouthisIran's puppet'.
article_snippet: Saudi Arabia's intervention is the latest front in Saudi Arabia's widening contest with Iran for power in the region.
article_snippet: Saudi Arabia's intervention proxy struggle is also playing out in Syria, where Tehran backs Bashar al-Assad's government against mainly Sunni rebels, and Iraq, where Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias are playing a major role.
article_snippet: Many residents are fleeing Tehran as the proxy conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran intensifies .
article_snippet: Iran has denied giving the Houthis military support, but Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of the Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, added to the sense of confrontation, saying: 'Saudi Arabia is too small to be able to threaten Iran. '
article_snippet: Hadi said Iran was likely to retaliate indirectly, by encouraging pro-Iranian Shi'ite activists to carry out armed attacks in Bahrain, Lebanon and eastern Saudi Arabia.
highlights_snippet: The country's embattled president is attempting to shore up Arab support .
  
highlights_snippet: Iranian security boss: '
highlights_snippet: Saudi Arabia is too small to be able to threaten Iran' 