Overview
- Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it closed the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for what it called a U.S.-led blockade of Iranian ports.
- The Guard revoked a previously announced corridor that had let non‑military ships pass after a brief ceasefire.
- Houthi official Hussein al‑Ezzi warned his side could close the Bab al‑Mandeb Strait unless U.S. policies change.
- Al‑Ezzi wrote that if Sana’a shut the waterway, “all of mankind and jinn” would be powerless to reopen it.
- News18 reports that Bab al‑Mandeb sits between Yemen and Djibouti and carries crude and fuels from the Gulf toward the Mediterranean as well as Russian oil bound for Asia.