The Islamic Republic said that the 1,400-mile inlet dividing Africa and Asia was fair game for retaliatory attacks because of the presence of the American aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford. Whether Iranian forces would assault Red Sea shipping themselves remains unclear, but in recent years the Houthis, Tehran’s proxy militia based in Yemen, have vastly reduced traffic through the waterway with attacks on vessels there. Historically, the Red Sea has been invaluable, with ar

An undersea fiber-optic cable cut in the Red Sea disrupted internet service across Pakistan and parts of South and West Asia, throttling...