Houthis just lit up Saudi oil hubs and the Hormuz bypass is next.

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Nothing says energy security like watching the world’s biggest oil processor catch fire while the president posts about deals that Iran keeps denying. The Houthis just reminded everyone the Red Sea end run is not invincible either. Guess those precision munitions really did run low.

Yemen Houthis claimed ballistic missiles and drones hit Aramco sites at Jizan and Yanbu over the weekend.
Smoke rose from the Jizan 400,000 barrel per day refinery.
NASA thermal data showed hotspots there.
Today satellite images show fires and burn marks at Abqaiq the giant processing plant.
Houthis say they targeted the East West pipeline route that lets Saudi oil skip the Strait of Hormuz.
Saudi officials blamed Iran backed groups in Iraq for the Abqaiq hit and reserved the right to respond.
This comes while Iran still holds the Strait closed and the US Iran fight drags on.
Oil markets already tight from the war now face another supply scare.


Iran attacks Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq in simultaneous attack

Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq reported drone attacks on Monday, two days after the United States abruptly suspended a two-week campaign of air strikes against Iran, as Tehran appeared to put President Donald Trump’s latest strategic U-turn to the test.

Separately, Iran’s Houthi allies in Yemen said they had targeted transit sites carrying oil to Saudi Arabia’s main Red Sea oil port of Yanbu, in retaliation for what it said were Saudi drone incursions into Yemeni airspace.

https://nypost.com/2026/07/27/world-news/saudi-arabia-jordan-and-iraq-report-drone-attacks/

Washington Post on Houthi claims against Saudi oil sites: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/07/25/houthis-claim-attack-saudi-oil-refinery-iran-war-widens-red-sea/
Al Jazeera on the new Red Sea front: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/26/new-front-in-us-iran-war-escalates-as-houthis-fire-at-saudi-oil-facilities