ABC News: The Bab el Mandeb Strait, an Alternative to Hormuz, Was Dragged into Conflict as Houthis Attacked Saudi Oil Tankers in the Red Sea

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RIVERS: "The Bab el Mandeb Strait is an essential waterway for global shipping operations but the narrow passage off the coast of Yemen at the southern tip of the red sea. Become, even more vital since the war in Iran began serving as an alternative shipping route to the shuttered Strait of Hormuz, including for Saudi arabian oil exports, but the bubble mundo st dragged into the conflict this week as the movies Iranian backed rebel group in Yemen, attacked several Saudi oil tankers in the red sea strangling another vital. Waterway, or than 10 percent of all global shipping goes through that straining chair and now faced with new threat. Ships like that, when they’re here in the red sea might get stuck yet again as a global economy could take another hit. These concerns and the reentry of the who, these into the conflict, leading the price of oil to shoot back up towards numbers not seen since. The, beginning of June president Donald Trump warning the who these and Iran after Wednesday nights attacks in a social media posts, saying if they do this again, the? U s will hold Iran responsible. But on Saturday the who these claiming they had struck to Saudi oil facilities while threatening to escalate further"