Red Sea chokepoint: Houthi rebels replicate Iran’s Hormuz strategy

Houthi rebels are systematically weaponizing the Red Sea the way Iran has long controlled the Persian Gulf, transforming a vital shipping corridor that handles roughly $1 trillion in annual trade into a zone of escalating risk. By attacking commercial vessels transiting near Yemen, the Iran-backed militants are not merely disrupting supply chains—they are demonstrating that non-state actors can now impose the same economic leverage once reserved for oil-rich nations. The strategy could reshape global maritime commerce and force a reckoning over who truly controls the world's chokepoints.

The Telegraph·Jul 28