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The risk of the Red Sea shipping crisis erupting again has risen, with Iran reportedly asking Yemen’s Houthi movement to prepare to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait if the United States attacks Iranian power infrastructure. Three sources told Reuters that the proposal has been discussed by Iran’s leadership and conveyed to the Houthis, while a source close to the Yemeni group claimed missiles and drones have already been deployed near the strategic waterway. The group is now said to be awaiting an order to begin targeting shipping. With the Strait of Hormuz already effectively shut, Bab el-Mandeb has become the principal release valve for Gulf oil exports, particularly for Saudi Arabia. Riyadh has increasingly relied on its East-West Pipeline to move crude from the Gulf coast to Yanbu on the Red Sea, bypassing Hormuz. The Red Sea is currently the release valve for Hormuz Shipping analysts at Scandinavian bank SEB said Saudi exports through Yanbu are currently running at between 4m and 4.5m barrels per day, close to the practical limits of the pipeline’s export capacity. “The Red Sea matters here because it is currently the release valve for Hormuz,” SEB noted. Those barrels must pass