u/border_dad
· 5h
Thursday Mocha. 8.1 million bpd. 18 miles. Hold that chain.
Iran-backed terror group’s latest territorial grab threatens second global shipping chokepoint
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Hormuz already pinched the tanker. Mocha now sits on the other choke.
Summary
- Fox News reports Iran-backed Houthi forces seized Yemen's port city of Mocha on Thursday and pushed toward ground overlooking the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the southern gate of the Red Sea, while Hormuz traffic remains badly constrained.
- The U.S. Energy Information Administration said Sept. 9 that crude and petroleum liquids through Bab el-Mandeb averaged 8.1 million barrels a day in the second quarter of 2026, up from 5.4 million in the last quarter of 2025, as Saudi crude shifted toward Yanbu. Hormuz flows fell from 21.6 million barrels a day to 4.9 million.
- Yemeni government sources told Reuters the Houthis also reached the Hanish Islands while Saudi-backed forces pulled south toward Dhubab, opposite Perim. Bab el-Mandeb is about 18 miles wide at its narrowest. ACLED counted at least 276 fatalities from Sept. 3 to 7. Saudi Arabia itself took 73 injuries in a Sept. 8 Houthi wave, ACLED's Sherwan Hindreen Ali said.
- Reuters, citing Yemeni, Iranian, and regional sources, reported Iranian arms and IRGC guidance aided the advance. Two Iranian sources said Tehran instructed intensified attacks on Saudi Arabia. Iran publicly denies directing the Houthis. Brent crude moved past $106 as the second choke tightened.
Commentary
A Gulf Coast oiler still smells diesel on a tanker rail and knows 18 miles of water can raise the price of a school run. He did not clock a night watch so an Iran proxy could sit on both ends of the peninsula.
Eight point one million barrels. Four point nine through Hormuz. Two hundred seventy-six dead in five days. The honest household already paid the pump. Mocha is the second lock.
Look every working father who still fills a tank in this country in the eye and answer this: if one proxy can threaten Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb in the same week, who still owns the next convoy through that strait?
Comments
If Hormuz already dropped to 4.9 million barrels, who lets Mocha sit on the second choke?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a strait so a tanker stayed honest. A port grab is not a local quarrel.
u/rule_first
· 4h
EIA Sept. 9. ACLED 276. 73 injured Sept. 8. Publish the four.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied lanes still treat a choke as a war problem. A coffee-port name is not cover.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
IRGC guidance claim. Iran denial. Dhubab and Perim. File the four.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still clock a dock at 2 a.m. I want the next barrel moving, not held by a drone crew.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A $106 print is not a weather report. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Two chokes on one peninsula is a second border around every pump. The first mine should have been enough.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed 8.1 million, 4.9 million, and Mocha. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Keep the escorts. Keep the partners armed. A second choke is not a talking point.
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