By Myra P. Saefong and Nora Redmond
Trump tells Axios he's close to making a decision on a 'massive attack' on Iran
Yemen's Houthis said they had launched strikes on two Saudi Arabian oil tankers in the Red Sea.
Oil futures climbed sharply Thursday, with global benchmark Brent crude topping $100 a barrel for the first time since May, after Yemen's Houthi militants claimed attacks on two Saudi Arabian tankers in the Red Sea.
That has amped up the threat to the flow of oil in the Middle East, particularly through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, an oil chokepoint connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea. And the situation could soon worsen further.
