US strike near Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant triggers conditional Houthi threat to close Bab el-Mandeb

A US strike hit a power substation near Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant on July 22–23, causing a multi-hour outage. Reuters reported on July 16 that Iran told the Houthis to close the Bab el-Mandeb strait if US forces struck Iran's power network — the exact scenario now confirmed. Whether the Houthis act on that warning remains the pressing question.