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Perim Island, also known as Mayyun, sits in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait between Yemen and Djibouti. Its position allows whoever controls it to monitor and potentially threaten one of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints linking the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden.
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Recent reports say Houthi forces seized the island as part of a wider advance along Yemen’s Red Sea coast. Any sustained control could increase pressure on commercial shipping, energy supplies and regional security.
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00:00If the Houthis take this one tiny island, the entire game flips into their hands.
00:04That island is Parham, 19 kilometers of rock, sitting at the narrowest point of Bab el-Mandeb.
00:09Houthi forces are closing in on Mocha, the last government port before it.
00:12Take the port, take the island, and the strait doesn't need missiles anymore, just mines.
00:16Now the dispute nobody's resolved.
00:17Iran says its IRGC hit two U.S. destroyers, causing serious damage.
00:22CENTCOM calls that completely false, and says it destroyed 10 Iranian tankers in a single week instead.
00:27Then there's the mountain.
00:28New CSIS satellite analysis shows the highest construction activity ever recorded at Pickaxe
00:34Mount, next to Natanz, the uranium site the U.S. already bombed.
00:37Roads leading in are getting harder, meaning heavier traffic.
00:40Israeli intel claims centrifuges were moved there.
00:42Iran has never answered IAEA's request to inspect it.
00:46Trump says the war ends immediately, after the midterms.
00:49Russia calls the strikes counterproductive, a stance that sits oddly next to its own growing
00:54footprint.
00:54An island, a mountain, an ending nobody can confirm.
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