New front in US-Iran war escalates as Houthis fire at Saudi oil facilities - Al Jazeera
New front in US-Iran war escalates as Houthis fire at Saudi oil facilities - Al Jazeera
Source: Al Jazeera
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DW NOTE
The Houthis are Saudi Arabia's bill for Yemen — six years overdue and now payable in full. Riyadh spent 2015–2022 bombing Houthi positions with American weapons, then signed a Chinese-brokered détente with Iran in 2023 and assumed the problem was solved. It wasn't. With the Strait of Hormuz already closed and oil at $89, targeting Saudi export infrastructure is a precision escalation: it tightens the supply shock without firing a shot at American forces.