@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social
2026-05-08 06:58 UTC
But the hassle with the Bab El Mandeb strait? Those pesky Houthis and their rockets. Besides their permanent presence as an Iranian proxy in the region, in recent years they've been firing at vessels originating from countries that support Israel.
If the Washington Post's report about the KSA lobbying for the US to attack Iran is accurate, then the KSA's primary motivation was probably finding a conduit for its oil in the Hormuz with no risk of rockets firing at them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/28/trump-iran-decision-saudi-arabia-israel/
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@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social 2026-05-08 06:59
So the other day, Reuters released this report based on a leaked document: that the US was about to lift 5 year old sanctions that it had placed on Eritrea. The Biden admin had sanctioned Eritrea in 2021 for its ethnic cleansing campaign during the Tigray war. The US is clearly getting in on the strait craze, and has identified proximity to the Bab El Mandeb as being of critical importance. https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-lift-eritrea-sanctions-red-sea-tensions-reshape-alliances-document-says-2026-05-05/