Radio warnings in the Red Sea may still be bluster, but Yanbu and the East-West pipeline now sit inside a dangerous new standoff
The Ansar Allah movement of Yemen (the Houthis) has announced what it calls a “maritime embargo” against Saudi Arabia.
The group’s military spokesman, Yahya Saree, framed the move as retaliation for what he described as 12 years of Saudi-led blockade by sea and air against Yemen. The wording itself is worth pausing on, because it is unusually vague for a movement that is normally precise in its threats. The Houthis do not trade with the Saudis in any meaningful volume, so an “embargo” in the classical economic sense…
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