{"id":45235,"date":"2026-07-18T10:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=45235"},"modified":"2026-07-18T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:38:10","slug":"the-chess-game-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/07\/18\/the-chess-game-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chess Game Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Iranian government continues to pressure the American government:<\/p>\n

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Having choked off shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is now signaling it could play its most dangerous card yet: using their Yemeni proxy organization, the\u00a0Houthis<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

As US strikes deepen inside Iran and Houthi attacks escalate in tandem, analysts say Tehran is widening the conflict<\/a>\u00a0and seeking to increase pressure on Washington by extending the threat to global trade and energy supplies beyond the Gulf. [The Jerusalem Post<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d not heard of this threat until now, and in fact Bab el-Mandeb<\/em> didn’t ring a bell, an indictment of my geographical knowledge of the region. Could the Houthis close Bab el-Mandeb?<\/p>\n

Here’s a map, but not properly labeled, so for your reference, the Strait of Hormuz<\/em> is at the upper right on that point of land north of Dubai<\/strong>, and Bab el-Mandeb<\/em> is at bottom center where Djibouti<\/strong> appears. I’d say it looks like a pincer movement on Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

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President Trump is learning that nastier bullies don’t blink, not when they think the Divine is on their side. And hate the guy who threatened to destroy their civilization.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Iranian government continues to pressure the American government: Having choked off shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is now signaling it could play its most dangerous card yet: using their Yemeni proxy organization, the\u00a0Houthis, to shut the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea, opening a new front \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45240,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45235\/revisions\/45240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}