New Delhi, July 30 -- DOHA - Yemen's Houthi armed group is working with Iran's Revolutionary Guards to design a toll system for vessels transiting the Bab el-Mandeb strait in the Red Sea, copying a strategy Iran deployed at the Strait of Hormuz and threatening to turn one of the world's most critical maritime chokepoints into a permanent source of militia revenue, according to Yemen's Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani.

The intelligence, Eryani said, confirmed that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps advisers were "directly involved in designing the technical and administrative framework of the project," including plans to establish a dedicated entity responsible for collecting payments from shipping companies and commercial vessels. T...