{"id":86538,"date":"2026-09-15T08:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86538"},"modified":"2026-09-15T08:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:09:12","slug":"houthis-seize-strategic-red-sea-islands-as-analysts-warn-of-impending-oil-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/houthis-seize-strategic-red-sea-islands-as-analysts-warn-of-impending-oil-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Houthis Seize Strategic Red Sea Islands As Analysts Warn Of Impending Oil Crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Guardian:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Yemen\u2019s Houthi militants have seized two strategic islands in the Red Sea, reinforcing the Iran-backed group\u2019s ability to control a key shipping route, as concerns mount that the world is facing a new oil supply crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The seizure of the islands of Greater and Lesser Hanish is the latest in the militant group\u2019s swift advance across Yemen\u2019s Red Sea coast, after the capture of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/sep\/11\/iran-houthi-allies-capture-strategic-island-bab-al-mandab-strait\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">port of Mokha and Perim island<\/a> in the Bab al-Mandab strait. The islands lie 160km north of the strait which is a chokepoint that connects the Red Sea to the open ocean and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/28\/asia-energy-oil-crisis-red-sea-blockade-houthis\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Saudi Arabia\u2019s key Asian markets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian: Yemen\u2019s Houthi militants have seized two strategic islands in the Red Sea, reinforcing the Iran-backed group\u2019s ability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86539,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86538\/revisions\/86539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}