Houthi Red Sea Blockade Threatens Saudi Arabia's Hormuz Bypass at Yanbu

Yemen's Houthis have attacked two Saudi vessels in the Red Sea and turned back at least ten more, disrupting the Bab El Mandeb Strait. Saudi Arabia rerouted oil through the East-West Pipeline to bypass Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz, but the Houthi blockade now menaces that pipeline's export terminal at Yanbu' Al-Bahr — a dual-chokepoint crisis.