Although Iran does not border the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, Yemen does, and Iran is closely allied with the Houthis, the Yemeni militant group that previously conducted dozens of strikes against Israel-linked vessels in the Red Sea in 2023 and 2024 in response to the war in Gaza.
i honestly expected the next transportation revolution to be a different one (maybe boat “drones”, so we don’t have to have nearly as much crew on tankers and ships and whatnot, that had been my prediction. i rather enjoyed being wrong on this one, in the way one can enjoy armchair predictions) but this is really interesting to watch how the war in ukraine and now around iran is pushing tech