Arabian Peninsula

That is, Yemen is also in a strong position now to strike, uh, Saudi energy assets.

The Yemenis also take, the, the Houthis, that is, taking larger territories across, uh, Yemen and, uh, uh, also, yeah, as you said, the Arab Peninsula.

You know, first they blocked, uh, the Strait of Hormuz on the eastern side, and now the Red Sea on the western side.

W- w- what, what do you think this would mean for not just the Saudis, but wider energy markets, uh, uh, i- in that region? I mean, well, uh, how, how long can they hold on, essentially?

Both Riyadh and Baghdad say the drone attack originated in Iraq, where Iranian-backed militias operate, and Iraq has dismissed a military commander in response to it.

The twelve-hundred-kilometer pipeline running across the Arabian Peninsula has been helping Saudi Arabia to bypass the Iran war shipping logjam in the Strait of Hormuz.

However, shipping oil via the Red Sea has been thrown into question after the Iran-aligned Houthi group seized control of Yemen's entire Red Sea coast, and so they'll ban Saudi shipping through the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which they now control.

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I've seen reports that they've captured those as well.

And they've captured the port of Mocha along the east coast of Yemen and well down past Hodeidah, past Mocha, and all the way down toward the tip, where that sort of thumb sticks out from the Arabian Peninsula.

It was a rapid advance, and now they have a whole shooting gallery lined up along the coast.

Now, Saudi Arabia has said the east-west pipeline was attacked by several drones coming from Iraq this week, and they've shut it down as a precautionary measure.

have completed an offensive movement on their west coast of that country, pushing back the Yemeni government forces and taking at least one key port, one could argue more than one, and a strategic island along the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

For reference, that strait lies between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea on the Horn of Africa.

And as I mentioned, it connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden.

Now, this thing with the Suez Canal is huge.

The area is arguably Yemen's most strategically valuable real estate, Mr. Barron said.

If the Houthis are able to take that territory, it could leave both of the Arabian Peninsula's major maritime choke points, Bab al-Mandab and the Strait of Hormuz, under at least the partial control of Iran and its allies, he added.

the houthi affiliated foreign ministry said in a statement on thursday that maritime navigation is safe and declared that skirmishes in western yemen where mokha lives have now been brought to an end without elaborating mokha was previously held by lieutenant-general tarek saleh a commander allied with the yemeni government his spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on thursday nor did the saudi government Mohammed al-Bughati, a Houthi political official, said in an interview that the group's goal was to fully restore Yemen's sovereignty and independence and to confront the Saudi enemy rather than expand its territory.

other factions in southern yemen can retain the areas under their control until a yemeni political process is held mr al-bukhadi added he accused general saleh's forces of violating yemen's truce on saudi orders and said This was why the Houthis had fought them.

The, the, it's the Houthis from Yemen.

They took over the, the straight on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula.

So like the street of Hormuz is on the Northern side of Saudi Arabian Peninsula.

And then this is on the Southern side, like close to Egypt.

And so theoretically all the boats coming out of like, northern end of saudi arabia whether you know where else coming from egypt or or somewhere else up there

There was a number of these terrorist groups, but I'd never heard of Al-Qaeda.

And none of these terrorist groups were from the Saudi Peninsula.

All the terrorist groups were basically from, I mean, there were Palestinian groups, but they were mad at Israel.

And then the Lebanese, the groups from Lebanon.