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Zaidi rejects the first 3 caliphs but they also reject Imam Mahdi. IMO Zaidi is half and half between Sunni and Shia.
Yemeni Sunnis are fairly moderate. South Yemen used to be a socialist country backed by the USSR and Cuba. The US and Saudi Arabia backed North Yemen which took over South Yemen in 1990 when Communism collapsed.
South Yemen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zaidis do not reject the first 3 Caliphs, they consider them in error but not in sin. They also do not curse them as their Imam Zaid RA never did so himself. As opposed to 12ers who consider the first 3 in sin, usurpers, and are the only shias who actively curse them hence the hatred between 12ers and hard line Sunni groups.