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PDB Afternoon Bulletin | September 10th, 2026: Iran’s Missiles Hit U.S. Fighter Jets · The President's Daily Brief

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  It's Thursday,
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  the 10th of September.
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  Welcome to the PDB
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  afternoon bulletin.
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  OK,
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  late afternoon,
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  possibly early evening bulletin.
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  It's been a busy,
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  busy day.
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  I'm Mike Baker,
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  your eyes and ears
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  on the world stage.
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  Alright,
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  let's get briefed.
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  First up,
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  new reporting shows that Iran's attack on a base in Jordan
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  Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning this week
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  hit several American combat aircraft.
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  We'll have the details.
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  Later in the show,
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  we're keeping a close eye on the growing conflict in
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  Yemen where Houthi territorial gains along the Red Sea coast
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  are bringing the fight dangerously close to the Bab al-Mdeb Strait.
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  That of course is a key transportation route.
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  But first,
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  today's afternoon spotlight.
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  Iran's latest missile attack on Jordan did more damage than initially reported.
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  Multiple American combat aircraft were hit at Muafaq Salti Air Base,
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  including apparently 8
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  F-15 Strike Eagles
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  and 1 A-10 Warthog.
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  According to CBS News,
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  the F-15s suffered relatively light damage and were quickly returned to service.
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  The A-10 was hit much harder,
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  with sources saying the aircraft lost a wing.
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  Now,
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  in airplane terms,
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  I understand that that's not good.
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  No American personnel were killed in the attack,
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  and all US forces in Jordan were accounted for.
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  But the damage complicates the initial assessment from American
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  officials who described Iran's response initially as ineffective.
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  The barrage itself was substantial.
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  Iran fired 20 ballistic missiles toward Jordan,
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  according to the Jordanian military.
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  Air defenses reportedly intercepted 18 of them,
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  while the remaining 2 were said to have fallen in unpopulated areas.
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  US forces also fired more than 30 Patriot interceptors during the attack,
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  that's according to CBS News.
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  And that does leave an obvious question.
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  If 18 of the 20 Iranian missiles were intercepted,
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  and the other 2 landed away from populated areas,
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  how did roughly 9 American aircraft end up damaged?
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  Well,
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  that sounds just like a word problem on an SAT test,
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  doesn't it?
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  So far officials have not publicly explained exactly what caused the damage.
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  It could have come from missiles reaching the base,
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  uh,
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  debris from interceptions,
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  or
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  another part of the barrage.
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  Up until the Pentagon provides more detail,
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  well,
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  we are simply speculating.
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  What we do know is why Iran launched the attack.
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  It came after another sharp escalation at sea.
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  US forces struck 5 Iranian oil tankers
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  after Tehran again attempted to hit an American warship with ballistic missiles.
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  Those strikes brought the number of Iranian tankers
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  destroyed or disabled by the US military since Saturday
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  to 8.
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  Iran answered by claiming attacks against
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  multiple vessels around the Strait of Hormuz
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  and launching the ballistic missile barrage toward
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  the American used base in Jordan.
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  Commercial shipping has also been caught in the exchange,
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  with merchant vessels damaged and sailors killed,
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  and the economic consequences are now becoming
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  harder to ignore.
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  Brent crude has climbed above $100 a barrel as
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  markets react to the combination of tanker attacks,
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  disrupted shipping through Hormuz,
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  and the growing risk that
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  fighting
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  could spread further across Gulf energy infrastructure.
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  But the new reporting from Jordan raises another problem for Washington,
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  and that would be the cost of defending American forces.
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  More than 30 Patriot missiles were reportedly fired to
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  help stop a barrage of 20 Iranian ballistic missiles.
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  Those interceptors are of course among the most
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  valuable air defense weapons in the US inventory,
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  and the Pentagon has already been dealing with concerns about
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  how quickly stocks are being consumed during this conflict.
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  So even if the defenses prevented a much worse outcome,
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  Iran still managed to impose a cost.
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  American aircraft were damaged.
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  More than 30 Patriot interceptors were expended,
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  and the Iranian regime
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  has shown that it's willing to continue targeting US military bases,
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  ships,
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  and personnel across the region.
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  And if the next barrage from the regime produces US casualties,
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  this conflict will escalate very quickly.
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  All right.
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  Coming up next,
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  the Houthis are expanding their control along Yemen's coastline,
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  and their latest gains are bringing them closer to the gateway of the Red Sea.
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  I'll be right back.
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  afternoon bulletin.
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  We're keeping a close eye on Yemen and
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  the renewed fighting along the country's Red Sea coast
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  between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the Saudi-backed government forces.
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  The Houthis pushed toward one of the world's most important shipping routes,
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  the Bab al-Mdeb Strait,
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  and that move is happening faster than anticipated.
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  Fighters of the Iran-backed militia seized the Yemeni port city of Mocha
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  and are now pushing farther
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  south toward the Bab al Mandeb Strait.
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  That's of course the narrow waterway that
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  connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.
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  As we discussed on Monday here on the PDB,
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  officials with Yemen's internationally recognized government
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  were already warning that the Houthis appeared to be moving toward Mocha.
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  Now that's cutting supply routes and capturing positions around
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  western Taiz.
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  Now 4 Yemeni government military sources tell Reuters
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  the Houthis have taken the city as the militia increasingly
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  shifts its focus from expanding its control in northern Yemen
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  to gaining territory along the country's long coastline,
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  and Moka is likely not the final objective.
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  The Houthis have also attacked the strategic Hanish
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  Islands farther out in the Red Sea,
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  pushing government forces and their allies south toward Dubab.
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  Now to give you a sense of the geography here,
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  all of this is unfolding along
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  Yemen's western coast along the Red Sea.
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  The Hannish Islands sit off shore north of Mocha
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  and overlook vessels approaching the strait.
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  Continue south along the Yemeni coast,
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  and you reach Dubab,
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  which sits directly on Baba Mandeb
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  and across from the island of Perim.
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  Now Yemeni military sources say that controlling Dubab and Perim
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  would be key to gaining control of the strait.
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  And we're already seeing signs of how much
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  pressure that is putting on government aligned forces.
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  One of the main commanders standing in
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  the Houthis' way along this stretch of coastline
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  is Tarek Saleh,
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  now the leader of the National Resistance Forces and an ally
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  of Yemen's internationally recognized government.
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  This afternoon,
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  Saleh ordered his forces to establish an alternative command center
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  in a safer location as Houthis continued pushing.
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  The back.
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  Houthi fighters were also filmed celebrating their advances,
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  with Reuters verifying video of armed militants chanting,
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  quote,
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  Death to America,
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  death to Israel,
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  end quote.
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  Not,
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  not exactly original.
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  But this isn't simply a fight over another piece of Yemen.
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  Bab al Mandeb is the southern gateway to the Red Sea,
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  sitting between Yemen
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  and the African coast.
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  Ships traveling north through it
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  can eventually reach the Suez Canal,
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  making the strait.
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  A critical artery connecting Asia and Middle Eastern trade with Europe.
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  Crude oil and fuel from the Gulf move through it toward
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  the Mediterranean while other commodities travel
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  through the waterway toward Asia.
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  Now we've already seen how much damage the Houthis can inflict on that trade
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  without actually controlling the strait.
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  In 2023,
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  the militia repeatedly attacked commercial vessels in
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  the Red Sea with missiles and drones,
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  attacks that resumed this year
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  as the Houthis joined Iran's confrontation with the US
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  More recently,
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  the militia declared a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia,
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  making the timing of this latest advance particularly dangerous
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  for the Saudi kingdom.
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  With shipping through the Strait of Hormuz
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  heavily disrupted by the conflict with Iran,
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  Riyadh
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  has been loading millions of barrels of oil a day on the Red Sea,
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  allowing those shipments to
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  bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
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  But oil traveling from there toward Asian markets may eventually
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  have to pass directly through the Bab al Mandeb Strait,
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  and that leaves Saudi Arabia
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  confronting threats around both sides of the Arabian Peninsula.
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  Iran around the Strait of Hormuz,
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  of course,
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  and Iran-backed Houthi forces
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  advancing toward Bab al Mandeb.
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  In response,
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  Saudi Arabia is putting Iran on notice.
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  Sources tell Reuters that Pakistan delivered a Saudi warning to Iran this week
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  to rein in its Houthi allies before the conflict spirals further.
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  The Iranian regime's response
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  was that quote,
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  Iran
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  does not control the Houthis,
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  end quote.
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  Well,
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  except for providing them with money and
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  weapons and training and guidance and leadership over many years.
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  Other than that,
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  yeah,
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  no connection.
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  But according to two Iranian sources who spoke with Reuters,
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  Tehran told the Houthis last week
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  to attack Saudi Arabia and promised them additional weapons and funding.
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  Those sources say several IRGC commanders traveled to Yemen
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  to help coordinate the attacks,
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  but yeah,
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  they don't control the Houthis.
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  And that,
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  my friends,
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  is the PDB
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  the 10th of September.
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