After Hormuz, Iran turns to Red Sea gateway as new pressure point ⁠97%

By Samia Nakhoul⁠97%

7/15/2026, 10:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Framing Effect, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 89% saturation with 145 hits. Analysis detected 1,068 faulty-reasoning hits from 163 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 95.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠97% (679 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 96.90% of the article peer group.

Beirut – Having choked off shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is now signaling it could play its most dangerous card yet: using Yemen’s Houthi allies to shut the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea, opening a new front against Washington and putting two of the world’s most vital energy arteries at risk. 
As U.S. strikes deepen inside Iran and Houthi attacks escalate in tandem, analysts say Tehran is widening the conflict and seeking to increase pressure on Washington by extending the threat to global trade ​and energy supplies beyond the Persian Gulf. 
Iran has already demonstrated the power of its most valuable strategic asset by disrupting traffic through the strait. 
Now, it appears ready to ‌open a ‌second pressure point at Bab el-Mandeb, the narrow waterway linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden through which Saudi oil ​exports and a substantial share of global shipping pass. 
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