Yemen Will Shut Down The Bab al-Mandab Strait!

ChatGPT is my new best friend. Yemen is going to shut down the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and members of Congress react to U.S. military members being killed by the Iranians.

Of course, Vance and wife Usha had announced their fourth child. How many of these military officials have children or expected children? 

He gets to enjoy his life while the families of those who were ordered to serve the U.S. in this war of choice being killed. These military officials will not see their families ever again all for Vance to celebrate his fourth child, Trump to enrich himself and his allies.

Iran promised that for every attack on them, retaliation is hitting places where the U.S. places its flag.

Israel is about to get hit by Iran soon.

Iran is warning that the more the U.S. and Israel continue its aggressions, the likely, Yemen will take sovereignty of its waterways. Ansar Allah, known in the West as the Houthis will impose a military blockade on the Bab al-Mandab Strait which has 10% to 15% of oil and commercial shipping.

Iranian leaders are negotiating a partnership with the Yemen government in Sana'a. 

On Monday, if the aggression continues, Yemen will put an effective block on water travel.

The U.S. military has reinstated a naval blockade and bombed Iran for several consecutive days, concentrating attacks on coastal areas near the Strait of Hormuz. But airstrikes have recently extended to infrastructure, such as railways that could be used to ferry weapons.

The Bab-el-Mandeb is a strait and a major global chokepoint between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa, connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and by extension the Indian Ocean.

The Bab-el-Mandeb acts as a strategic link between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea via the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. Most exports of petroleum and natural gas from the Persian Gulf that transit the Suez Canal or the SUMED Pipeline pass through both the Bab el-Mandeb and the Strait of Hormuz. 

While the narrow width of the strait requires vessels to travel through the territorial sea of adjacent states, under the purview of Article 37 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the legal concept of transit passage applies to Bab el-Mandeb, although Eritrea (unlike the rest of coastal countries) is not a party to the convention.

Chokepoints are narrow channels along widely used global sea routes that are critical to global energy security. The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is 26 kilometres (14 nautical miles) wide at its narrowest point, limiting tanker traffic to two 2-mile-wide channels for inbound and outbound shipments.

Closure of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait could keep tankers originating in the Persian Gulf from transiting the Suez Canal or reaching the SUMED Pipeline, forcing them to divert around the southern tip of Africa, which would increase transit time and shipping costs.

In 2006, an estimated 3.3 million barrels (520,000 m3) of oil passed through the strait per day, out of a world total of about 43 million barrels per day (6,800,000 m3/d) moved by tankers. This rose by 2014 to 5.1 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil, condensate and refined petroleum products headed toward Europe, the United States, and Asia, then an estimated 6.2 million b/d by 2018.

In 2017, total petroleum flows through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait accounted for about 9% of total seaborne-traded petroleum (crude oil and refined petroleum products) in 2017. About 3.6 million b/d moved north toward Europe; another 2.6 million b/d flowed in the opposite direction mainly to Asian markets such as Singapore, China, and India.