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Iran and its Yemeni Houthi allies seek to disrupt shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb, critical global maritime chokepoints. These moves risk escalating regional tensions and threatening key international shipping routes including access to the Suez Canal.

As Iran tightens its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, its Yemeni allies, the Houthi rebels, want to disrupt shipping in the Red Sea to and from Saudi ports and could possibly disturb traffic in another strait, Bab el-Mandeb, which ships must cross to reach the Suez Canal, experts say. These two passages, which lock ...