Tehran has threatened to close “all other export corridors that benefit the US and its allies” after it 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,” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement carried by the 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 el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea, opening a new front against Washington and putting two of the world’s most vital energy arteries at risk.The narrow gateway links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, through which Saudi oil exports and a substantial share of global shipping pass.A senior Houthi official warned on Monday that the group was prepared to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait – a move he said could ​send oil prices soaring to $200 a barrel – if Saudi Arabia continued to attack Yemen, according to a report on Iran’s Press TV website.Houthi forces fired missiles at Saudi Arabia after accusing the kingdom of bombing an airport under their control on Monday, breaking ⁠a four-year truce in the conflict between the kingdom and the Iran-aligned group.The Houthis have already shown they can choke global commerce through the Bab el-Mandeb. After the Gaza war ‌began in ‌October ​2023, the Iran-backed group launched attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, saying it was targeting vessels linked to Israel in support of Palestinians.The latest threat to global shipping comes a day after the US military said it began a fresh round of strikes “to continue degrading Iranian capabilities used ⁠to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.”The United States said Iran had ​attacked seven commercial ships over the last week, leading to nearly a dozen crew members being killed, ​missing or injured.The US military said late on Tuesday that it hit dozens of military targets near the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian coastal areas. The wave of strikes lasted seven hours, the US Central Command ‌said in a statement.The IRGC said on Wednesday ​that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until what it described as “the end of America’s evils”. Before the war began in February, about a fifth of global oil and gas shipments ⁠passed through Hormuz each day.Strait of Hormuz (PA Graphics) The IRGC said they had targeted what they described ⁠as command-and-control, logistics, fuel and military equipment facilities belonging to ​the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, in response to the latest US strikes in the Strait of Hormuz.They also said they had set fire to and destroyed what they described as a US logistics facility in Kuwait’s Mina Abdullah and that their air force had struck what they described as a US base at Azraq in Jordan, targeting aircraft hangars. They said some of the US attacks had been launched from bases on Jordanian territory.Earlier on Wednesday, Kuwait’s state news agency reported that a fire was brought under control at a site targeted in Iranian attacks. Jordan’s air defence intercepted and shot down three ballistic missiles that entered the country’s airspace from Iranian territory early on Wednesday.The hostilities between Iran and the US reignited last week, fraying an already fragile truce reached in June ‌after several months of fighting that has killed ⁠thousands.President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to hit Iranian power plants and bridges next week unless Tehran resumes negotiations.“I’ll save the energy targets for last, but ultimately we’ll hit energy targets,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News.US president Donald Trump: threatened to bomb Iranian power plants and bridges next week unless Tehran resumes negotiations. Photograph: Tierney L Cross/The New York Times