Another global choke point is under threat
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Iran has gained leverage over a new global choke point—the Bab al-Mandab strait. Its ally, the Houthi rebel militia, seized new territory on Yemen’s coast that borders the strait, through which roughly 12% of global trade traverses every day.
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