Houthis encouraged to shut down Red Sea shipping if US escalates Iran war
Iranian leaders have encouraged the Yemen-based Houthis to be ready to shut down shipping in the Red Sea if the United States strikes Tehran’s power infrastructure.The Iranians have discussed the plan and informed their Houthi allies, Reuters reported on Thursday. New attacks like those the Iranians have carried out near the Strait of Hormuz in the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb Strait would exacerbate the already increasing energy crisis triggered by the U.S.-Iran war. “So in the case of the Houthis, it was like very low, low-technology drones, the threat of attacks that more effectively closed off the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, that that waterway to Western-affiliated vessels, and it’s the same with the Strait of Hormuz.”Advertisement
- ▪Iranian leaders have encouraged the Yemen-based Houthis to be ready to shut down shipping in the Red Sea if the United States strikes Tehran’s power infrastructure.The Iranians have discussed the plan and informed their Houthi allies, Reute
- ▪New attacks like those the Iranians have carried out near the Strait of Hormuz in the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb Strait would exacerbate the already increasing energy crisis triggered by the U.S.-Iran war.
- ▪“So in the case of the Houthis, it was like very low, low-technology drones, the threat of attacks that more effectively closed off the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, that that waterway to Western-affiliated vessels, and i
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Iranian leaders have encouraged the Yemen-based Houthis to be ready to shut down shipping in the Red Sea if the United States strikes Tehran’s power infrastructure.The Iranians have discussed the plan and informed their Houthi allies, Reuters reported on Thursday. New attacks like those the Iranians have carried out near the Strait of Hormuz in the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb Strait would exacerbate the already increasing energy crisis triggered by the U.S.-Iran war. Recommended Stories Tehran billboard shows a dead Trump and references to destroyed Minab elementary school France gives final approval to assisted-dying bill Israeli High Court intervenes against law suspending arrest of ultra-orthodox draft dodgers Should the Houthis start such attacks, it would take the region’s two main…
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