Saudi Arabia Shuts Down Key Pipeline as Iranian Proxies Wage Multi-Front Assault
“Yemen’s rampant Houthi forces have captured the strategic island of Perim in the Bab al-Mandab strait, expanding their control of the narrow waterway, one of the world’s vital shipping routes.”
Saudi Arabia was forced to close down a critical oil pipeline following a wave of drone attacks, as the kingdom faces a multi-pronged assault from Iran and its proxy terrorist groups.
Saudi Arabia’s 745-mile-long East-West pipeline, key to bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, was shuttered after drone attacks blamed on Iranian-backed terror groups based in Iraq. “Saudi Arabia has shut down its East-West pipeline after the vital oil conduit came under aerial attack in the widening Middle East war, threatening to send energy prices even higher,” Reuters reported Saturday. “The world’s largest crude oil exporter temporarily closed the pipeline after a drone attack that both Baghdad and Riyadh said had originated in Iraq, where Iranian-backed militias operate.”
Pumping station #11, E/W pipeline, southeast of Medina, KSA.
No comment. One pic = 1000 words#oott #oil #IranWar pic.twitter.com/TAvrj8aPMr
— Olivier Raevel (@ORaevel) September 12, 2026
The blazing Saudi pipeline could be seen from a great distance. “Satellite imagery indicates there were several fires yesterday along a 68-mile (109km) stretch of Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq-Yanbu oil pipeline, which connects the Gulf and Red Sea,” the BBC reported. Images posted on social media show “a large plume of black smoke emanating from the vicinity of pumping station about 45 miles (72km) south of Medina,” the broadcaster added.
The attack on the pipeline once again highlights the multi-pronged war Iran is waging on the U.S. and its allies in the region. Iranian terror proxies, from Hezbollah in Lebanon to Yemen’s Houthis, are taking their marching orders from Tehran and advancing its military objectives.
CNN reports that pumping stations on Saudi Arabia’s key east-west pipeline were hit on Thursday, with one severely damaged.
The pipeline currently carries 7+ million barrels of crude oil per day bypassing Hormuz. pic.twitter.com/t5fnZMGcgM
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) September 11, 2026
The attack comes as the Iran-backed Houthis tighten their control of a Red Sea waterway. On Friday, the Yemeni terrorist group seized the strategic Red Sea island of Perim, giving it greater control of the Bab al-Mandab strait.
“Yemen’s rampant Houthi forces have captured the strategic island of Perim in the Bab al-Mandab strait, expanding their control of the narrow waterway, one of the world’s vital shipping routes,” The Guardian reported Saturday. “The Bab al-Mandab strait links Asia to Europe via the Red Sea and Suez canal. Perim island, also known as Mayun, divides the waterway in two, close to its narrowest point.”
Reporter: “Is Iran responsible for the attack on the East-West Pipeline? And when do you think Saudi Arabia is going to be able to get that —”
President Trump: “I think they are probably. They are on the balls of their feet right now, but I think they are. They've been in charge… pic.twitter.com/X6Ek0279bg
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) September 12, 2026
Faced with the Iranian threat to the Strait of Hormuz, maritime traffic increasingly relied on the Bab al-Mandab as a more secure alternative. Reuters described the Red Sea waterway as “one of the world’s most important routes for global seaborne commodity and goods shipments, particularly from Asia to Europe via the Suez Canal.”
By maintaining their menacing presence at the Red Sea chokepoint, the Houthis advance Iran’s military goals: disrupting global oil trade and dominating the Gulf Arab states.
The Houthis just struck Saudi Arabia's key oil pipeline.
Mainstream media is silent, but NASA satellite images are clear.
And 7% of the world's oil supply goes through that pipe.
What happened + how it affects the West: 👇 pic.twitter.com/wE1QNVaRPi
— Craig Steinke (@Craig_Steinke) September 11, 2026
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Maybe this time they’ll go after the Blowfish too… 😀🏠😀😭😀
Time to take out Iran
Time to pull all the Toothies out of the Houthis
It’s long past the time to take Iran out. And when I say take them out I mean destroy all existing infrastructure. The roads. The bridges. The power generation plants. The water facilities. Military bases. Government buildings. Everything must go. Bomb them back to the stone age and then inform any remaining Iranian leadership (if any) that we will be watching them and will repeat the exercise if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Yes indeed. Stop pandering to the Iranian expats and the touchy feely impulse some seem to have re the purpose of warfare. Make the enemy quit by bringing death and destruction until they figure out they must surrender to make it stop. If they don’t surrender then we don’t stop until there’s not two bricks touching. Then fire bomb the rubble.
And what is your plan when the Iranians destroy all their neighbors desalination plants?
And when the Iranians destroy the Saudi oil fields?
After the Israelis and the U.S. have already proven we cannot stop them launching missiles and drones from underground sites?
Not to mention proxies launching drones at the same targets.
There is no deterrent threat that can stop them.
Bomb the fuck out of that island and everything else the hourhis own 🤌
This is what happens when you let a problem fester for 47 years. Iran is not the only such festering problem. Cuba, China and Russia are also festering problems, The latter two are going to result in many deaths and considerable inaccessible areas,
Google AI:
To effectively cover 5 square miles of land, it would take approximately 32,000 to 37,000 cluster bomb submunitions (bomblets) under standard military deployment patterns.
To deploy exactly 35,000 submunitions (bomblets), it would take anywhere from 142 to 875 bombs based on the most common configurations…
Yes, as I said bomb the fook out of everything on that island and everything the houthis own and then bomb then again.
Are the Europeans really such monumental [rhymes with wussies] that they’ll do absolutely nothing? What about India, Japan, S.Korea, Australia? Is every (at least nominally) democratic nation on earth really so worthless ?
Yes. The most they will do is hold America’s coat while we do the work, expend the lives and treasure, and still hate us.
Where are the rules-based order folks when these folks shut down international water ways?
The Saudis need to start fighting better. They need to get off their royal butts. Time to Napalm the Houthis.
Do the Saudis even have an army? You never hear about it.
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