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Still a houthi stronghold with tribal support and Saudis don't want to add it in their nation.
This is not Iraq where there's clear distinction between Sunnis and Twelevers shia who have their religious rituals they practice which is why they have their own mosques as they don't pray the way other Muslims do. In Yemen there's no Zaydi or Shafi'i area or district as everyone lives in the same land and those distinction has been always preserved to religious scholars or jurist on which Madhab or sect they follow. So areas in which Houthis didn't face any strong resistance would be Northern Yemen future state as Houthis did it's ideological campaign only in North Yemen in which it got public support and never went to the south.
Houthis are Infact are erasing sunni practices from areas such as IBB. They only allow Zaydi scholars with twelver Shia education to preach in the mosques.
Hussain Badredin Houthi himself was inspired by the Ayotallah of Iran and spent quite along time in Qoms Iran to spread his Jafari ideology to Yemen.
This is Houthis forcing Sunni residents to pray a different style of prayer not accustomed to the Sunnah
here are Houthi “educational” schools similar to the Nazis radicalizing the next generation of North Yemen