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  • my point is that those chokepoints are mainly designed to let the oil go out, and saudi arabia is in the red sea. if they wanted to they could use the suez canal as a worldwide route for oil export, even if it would be more expensive. and the houthis said only saudi ships are not allowed to transit, so it’s not like the suez or bab-el-mandeb are closed right now, they need to keep the economic incentive for other countries.

    so what i’m saying is that saudi arabia could sail from the west of its country, go north to the suez and export oil to the us for example. or why do you think that’s not possible? i mean i’m all for them to completely control the red sea, don’t get me wrong, it’s just i think there’s that exit still.


  • yemen is at the south of the red sea, literally next to bab-el-mandeb. they control that area of the red sea, not the suez canal, which is way up north and connects with the mediterranean, egypt controls that. i haven’t read anything claiming they have complete control over the whole of the red sea, only that area where they can target boats leaving the red sea through the strait.
















  • it seems it was on a pumping station, not a direct hit on the pipeline maybe. i wonder if it’ll be that easy to restore it this time. anyway i guess as long as the houthis hold bab-el-mandeb it will be almost irrelevant now.

    During the 2026 Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz to non-Iranian vessels, it was converted to full capacity on 11 March 2026. After conversion, the amount of oil transferred using the Bab-el-Mandeb strait rose by 21% in comparison to February 2026, all of it bound to Asia. An Iranian drone attack on a pumping station reduced the throughput of the pipeline by 700,000 barrels per day (110,000 m3/d), as of 9 April. Less than three days later, on 12 April, Saudi Arabia announced that the pipeline had been restored to full capacity.