Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to close “all other export corridors that benefit the US ​and its allies”, Iranian media reported, after Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz and the US reimposed a naval blockade of Iranian ports.

“Regional energy exports are either shared by ‌all, or denied to all,” the IRGC said in a statement carried by Iran’s IRNA state news agency on Wednesday.

Analysts have said Iran has been signaling it may use its Houthi allies in Yemen to shut the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea, opening a new front against Washington and putting two of the world’s most vital energy arteries at risk.

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