{"id":1362,"date":"2026-04-18T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:53:00","slug":"houthi-close-the-straits-of-bab-al-madab-if-trump-intervenes-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1362","title":{"rendered":"Houthi: Close the Straits of Bab al-Madab if Trump intervenes in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the closure of the <b>Bab al-Madab Strait<\/b> on the <b>Red Sea<\/b> side, the <b>Houthi<\/b> again warn in case of an attack by <b>Trump<\/b> on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>This is a warning that, if implemented, will lead to an escalation with uncontrollable consequences in the <b>Middle East<\/b> region. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>If Sana&#8217;a (Yemen&#8217;s capital) decides to close the Bab al-Madab Strait, then neither humanity nor the jinni will be able to open it<\/b>,&#8221; warned Yemeni Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein al-Ezzi. &#8220;<b>Therefore, the best thing for Trump &#8211; and the world that conspires with him &#8211; is to immediately end all practices and policies that hinder peace<\/b> and show the required respect for the rights of our people and nation,&#8221; <b>Hussein al &#8211; Ezzi<\/b> stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Note that Hussein al &#8211; Ezzi represents the Houthis, who are allied with <b>Iran<\/b>, Hamas and Hezbollah. Hussein al-Ezzi&#8217;s warning is being issued, <b>as an emergency meeting is underway at the White House under US President <a href=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/ipa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump,<\/b> <b>to assess the situation in the <b>Seaway Strait<\/b>, while the aircraft carrier &#8216;USS Gerald R. Ford&#8217; and its accompanying task force are sailing in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The closure of the <b>Bab al-Madab Strait<\/b> in the Red Sea represents the second passage for global shipping. Any closure in conjunction with the closure of the<b> Hormuz Strait <\/b> will affect the global economy by causing a gridlock in shipping, oil and other commodities. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, today <b>Iranian forces<\/b> <b>attacked<\/b> three oil tankers<\/b>, one British-flagged and two Indian-flagged. <\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houthis are again warning of the closure of the Straits of Bab al-Madab on the Red Sea side in the event of an attack by Trump &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}