Sanaa, April 19 -- The Deputy Foreign Minister of the internationally unrecognised Houthi administration in Yemen Hussein al-Ezzi has warned that the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait could be shut if US President Donald Trump and what he called the "complicit world" do not end "all practices and policies that obstruct peace".

In a post on X, Hussein al-Ezzi said, "If Sana'a decides to close the Bab al-Mandab, then all of mankind and jinn will be utterly powerless to open it."

He added, "And therefore, it is best for Trump--and the complicit world--to immediately end all practices and policies that obstruct peace, and to show the respect required for the rights of our people and nation."

According to Al Jazeera, Bab al-Mandeb connects the...