Iran Orders Houthis to Close Red Sea Oil Route if US Strikes Power Grid

Tehran has instructed Houthi forces in Yemen to stand ready to shut down the Bab el-Mandeb Strait — a critical Red Sea chokepoint — if the United States strikes Iranian power infrastructure, with President Trump warning such strikes could come as early as next week. This escalating coordination between Iran and its regional proxies threatens global energy supplies and risks drawing Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Gulf states into a wider war, fulfilling the prophetic pattern of nations aligning against Israel's region in the last days. Revelation 16:12 and Ezekiel 38 describe a gathering of eastern and northern powers that converges on the Middle East, and the deliberate weaponisation of trade routes echoes the economic warfare foreshadowed in end-times Scripture.