{"id":433904,"date":"2026-07-16T20:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/iran-reportedly-tells-houthis-to-close-red-sea-oil-route-if-us-decides-to-strike-power-infrastructure-433904\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:40:05","slug":"iran-reportedly-tells-houthis-to-close-red-sea-oil-route-if-us-decides-to-strike-power-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/iran-reportedly-tells-houthis-to-close-red-sea-oil-route-if-us-decides-to-strike-power-infrastructure-433904\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran reportedly tells Houthis to close Red Sea oil route if US decides to strike power infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">\ufeffThe report says that a possibility that is being discussed within Iran&#8217;s leadership now is potentially to ask Yemen&#8217;s Houthi movement to be on standby and ready to close the Red Sea oil route, that is if the US decides to strike Iran&#8217;s power network next. The sources mention that the Houthis had recently been informed of the request. Adding that the group had completed preparations to attack shipping by deploying missiles and drones near the Bab el-Mandab strait.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">For some context, the strait is pretty much the gateway to the Red Sea. As such, any closure or disruption there would just serve to exacerbate the current crisis to the global energy market. And it would also further disrupt the damage to supply chains and global shipping networks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Any disruption to the strait here could potentially take away up to 8-9 million barrels of oil per day, adding to the dislocation from the Strait of Hormuz closure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">The Houthis had already shown some appetite in escalating tensions after having fired missiles at Saudi Arabia on Monday, breaking a four-year truce between the two sides. So, there is that to be wary about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">One of the sources also note that Saudi Arabia is becoming aware that the Yemeni group is now closely coordinating with Iran over the Red Sea situation. As a reminder, Saudi Arabia has already diverted about 70% of its energy exports through the Red Sea now. As such, any major disruption here will be a big problem to them and for oil markets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffThe report says that a possibility that is being discussed within Iran&#8217;s leadership now is potentially to ask Yemen&#8217;s Houthi movement to be on standby and ready to close the Red Sea&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}