{"id":437938,"date":"2026-09-11T15:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/yemens-iran-backed-houthis-have-completed-the-takeover-of-bab-el-mandeb-strait-437938\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:25:21","slug":"yemens-iran-backed-houthis-have-completed-the-takeover-of-bab-el-mandeb-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/yemens-iran-backed-houthis-have-completed-the-takeover-of-bab-el-mandeb-strait-437938\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen&#8217;s Iran-backed Houthis have completed the takeover of Bab el-Mandeb Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Yemen&#8217;s Iran-backed Houthis have completed the takeover of Bab el-Mandeb Strait after capturing  strategic points in the Red Sea, according to the AFP.\u00a0Bab el-Mandeb connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and provides a key maritime route between the Indian Ocean, the Suez Canal and Europe. Around 10% of global trade passes through this waterway. <\/p>\n<p>That leaves global energy flows facing pressure from both ends of the Arabian Peninsula. Iran&#8217;s disruption of Hormuz threatens the main route out of the Persian Gulf, while Houthi control of Bab el-Mandeb creates another bottleneck for shipments moving through the Red Sea and toward the Suez Canal.<\/p>\n<p>For the optimists, this increases Iran&#8217;s leverage significantly and could force the US out of the war which would bring oil prices to pre-war levels. For the pessimists, Trump might not care much about it and keep waiting, hoping that the sanctions and the attacks force Iran to surrender first.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Giuseppe Dellamotta at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen&#8217;s Iran-backed Houthis have completed the takeover of Bab el-Mandeb Strait after capturing strategic points in the Red Sea, according to the AFP.\u00a0Bab el-Mandeb connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of&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-437938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437938","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=437938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}