Iran threatens to close more vital seaways as US renews blockade

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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to close additional export corridors benefiting the US and its allies following Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz. This escalation coincides with renewed US naval blockades on Iranian ports and potential use of Houthi allies to disrupt maritime traffic.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to close “all other export corridors that ⁠benefit the US and its allies”, Iranian media reported, after Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz and the US reimposed a naval blockade of Iranian ports. “Regional energy exports are either shared by all, or denied to all,” the IRGC said in a statement carried by Iran’s IRNA state news agency on Wednesday. Analysts have said Iran has been signalling it may use its Houthi allies in Yemen to shut the Bab...