Saudi Arabia is currently facing "the biggest threat" ever to its production of oil as the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen are launching cross-border attacks and seizing territory near the Red Sea’s Bab el-Mandeb Strait, an expert told Fox News Digital.Hussain Abdul-Hussain, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said Thursday that the situation is escalating in the Middle East as Iran "likely instigated the Houthis to force a blockade on Saudi Arabia.""I think this situation is really precarious for the Saudis.This is the biggest threat to their production of oil since their kingdom was founded in 1932.
And this is almost existential," he said."We see that the Saudis are trying to shop for some force to fight their war for them.And I think along the lines, they also called President Trump.
It doesn't look to me that Washington is going to get involved in this one," he added."We'll probably offer them advice and tell support, but I don't think we, the United States, will get involved with this war over Bab el-Mandeb."IRAN-BACKED TERROR GROUP'S LATEST TERRITORIAL GRAB THREATENS SECOND GLOBAL SHIPPING CHOKEPOINTYemen's Houthi armed forces patrol as Yemeni prisoners loyal to the Houthis arrive in the capital of Sanaa on Sept.
12, 2026, after being released on the west coast where they had been held by Yemen's Saudi-backed government forces.(AFP via Getty Images)Saudi Arabia was forced to temporarily close its East-West oil pipeline last week following a drone attack launched from Iraq, which Trump said he believes Iran was behind.
Then on Tuesday, Saudi Arabia destroyed a Houthi drone that attempted to enter the airspace near Mecca, among other recent provocations."We know that the United States imposes a blockade on Iran, so Iran is unable to export any of its oil, licitly or illicitly.What the Iranians are trying to do is that they're trying to telegraph to the other oil exporters in the region that either we export, all of us export oil,...