RiyadhBrent hit $109.50 a barrel Sept. 9.
Brent is up 22% as all three of Saudi Arabia’s export routes face attack.
Drone strikes shut its Red Sea pipeline days after Yemen’s Houthi forces tightened their grip on Bab al-Mandab.
Saudi Arabia is giving Iraq’s government time to halt attacks from its soil before it responds.
How each outlet framed it
- The War Zone leans critical
- maps Iranian strategic encirclement: concurrent control of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab severs both Saudi export routes
Sources: The War Zone