Houthis threaten to close Bab el-Mandeb — the last exit is closing

Hormuz is blocked. Now the Houthis are threatening to shut Bab el-Mandeb, the narrow strait at the southern end of the Red Sea. A Houthi deputy minister posted that “all of mankind and jinn will be powerless to open it” if Sana’a decides to close it. Saudi Arabia had rerouted all the crude it could to Yanbu on the Red Sea to bypass Hormuz. If Bab el-Mandeb goes too, the world’s two most important oil chokepoints will be simultaneously shut. There is no plan C.