How Iran throws its second trump card on the table with ‘Gate of Tears’. One that will lead to an even greater energy crisis

Now that the Houthis have fired a missile from Yemen at Israel for the first time since the start of the war, the regime in Iran – which uses the Houthi rebels as a proxy group – is throwing a new trump card on the table: the Strait of Bab-al-Mandab, ‘Gate of Tears’ in Arabic. This important shipping route between Europe and Asia, the gateway to the Suez Canal, is becoming the second bottleneck for the global economy after the Strait of Hormuz. “They want to create global economic and financial chaos,” said defense specialist Roger Housen.

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