{"id":361609,"date":"2026-07-16T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/iran-threatens-to-shut-crucial-red-sea-energy-route-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T01:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:00:34","slug":"iran-threatens-to-shut-crucial-red-sea-energy-route-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/iran-threatens-to-shut-crucial-red-sea-energy-route-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran threatens to shut crucial Red Sea energy route | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/hEhNsEYRywI\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Iran threatens to shut crucial Red Sea energy route | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hEhNsEYRywI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Tehran has warned that, if Washington&#8217;s naval blockade continues, it could use its Houthi allies in Yemen to shut the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea. The narrow waterway links it to the Gulf of Aden. If both that and the Strait of Hormuz were to be shut simultaneously, it could cripple global trade in ways this war has, so far, not seen.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Iran threatens to close Bab el-Mandeb Strait<br \/>\n00:48 Oraib Al Rantawi, Sr. Advisor, Al Quds Center for Political Studies<\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>#dwcurrentaffairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran has warned that, if Washington&#8217;s naval blockade continues, it could use its Houthi allies in Yemen to shut the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea. The narrow waterway links it to the Gulf of Aden. If both that and the Strait of Hormuz were to be shut simultaneously, it could cripple global trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":361610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-361609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran threatens to shut crucial Red Sea energy route | DW News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Iran threatens to shut crucial Red Sea energy route | DW News for free, here on News ISC. 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