In its latest bid to escalate, Iran has gone all-out. After closing the Strait of Hormuz, on Wednesday it threatened to go after other waterways in the region to stop energy exports, as reported by Iran’s official media. The escalation in Yemen is part of that plan. Tehran seems to have been especially enraged by the new channel Oman has provided for safe passage through its own territorial waters in the Strait of Hormuz.

The United States and Iran both claim control over the Strait of Hormuz. Escalating attacks across the Middle East threaten ongoing diplomacy to end the war. US forces struck…

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By Samia NakhoulBEIRUT, July 14 (Reuters) - Having choked off shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is now signaling it could play its most dangerous card yet: using Yemen's…

Having choked off shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is now using the Houthis to extend its threat to global trade and energy supplies beyond the Persian Gulf.

Iran is signaling potential closure of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait via its Houthi allies. This move risks disrupting global trade and vital energy supplies through the Red Sea.…

Iran's IRGC threatened to halt all Gulf oil exports, closed the Strait of Hormuz, and drove Brent Crude above $120 per barrel in a major geopolitical

By Enas Alashray, Tala Ramadan, Kanishka Singh and Samia NakhoulCAIRO/WASHINGTON/BEIRUT, July 15 (Reuters) - Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to close "all…

Red Sea gateway seen as next flashpoint as Trump warns of targeting Iranian energy infrastructure.

The Iranian regime has skilfully leveraged the Strait of Hormuz to its advantage, but it isn’t the only strategic waterway at its disposal to blunt the US.

July 15 (Reuters) - Iran has warned that its campaign to throttle global energy markets could be expanded from the Strait of Hormuz to the vital Red Sea route if U.S. attacks…

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has threatened to close “all other export routes used by the United States and its allies” after Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz and…

In its latest bid to escalate, Iran has gone all-out. After closing the Strait of Hormuz, on Wednesday it threatened to go after other waterways in the region to stop energy…

Iran has signalled that it could expand pressure beyond the Strait of Hormuz to another of the world's most critical maritime chokepoints, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the southern…