Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to close “all other export corridors that benefit the US and its allies”, Iranian media reported, after Iran shut the Strait ​of Hormuz and the US reimposed a naval blockade of Iranian ports.

“Regional energy exports are either shared by all, or denied to all,” the IRGC said in ‌a statement carried by Iran’s IRNA state news agency on Wednesday.

Analysts have said Iran has been signalling it may use its Houthi allies in Yemen to shut the Bab El Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea, opening a new front against Washington and putting two of the world’s most vital energy arteries at risk.

The narrow gateway links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, through which Saudi oil exports and a substantial share of global shipping ​pass.

A senior Houthi official warned on Monday that the group was prepared to close the Bab El Mandeb Strait — a move he said could send oil prices soaring to $200 a ​barrel — if Saudi Arabia continued to attack Yemen, according to a report on Iran’s Press TV website.

The Houthis have already shown they can ​choke global commerce through the Bab El Mandeb.

After the Gaza war erupted in October 2023, the group launched attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, saying it was targeting vessels linked to ​Israel in support of Palestinians.

‘End of America’s evils’

The IRGC said on ​Wednesday that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until what it described as “the end of America’s evils”.

Before the war began in February, about a fifth of global oil and gas shipments passed through Hormuz each ‌day.

The Guards ⁠said they had targeted what they described as command-and-control, logistics, fuel and military equipment facilities belonging to the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, in response to the latest US strikes in the Strait of Hormuz.

They also said they had set fire to and destroyed what they described as a US logistics facility in Kuwait’s Mina Abdullah and that their air force had struck what they described as a US base at Azraq in Jordan, targeting aircraft hangars.

They said some of the US attacks had been launched from bases on Jordanian territory.

Earlier on Wednesday, Kuwait’s state news agency reported ​that a fire was brought under control at ​a site targeted in Iranian attacks.

It ⁠was not immediately clear whether the fire was at the same site referred to in the IRGC statement.

Jordan’s air defence intercepted and shot down three ballistic missiles that entered the country’s airspace from Iranian territory early on Wednesday.

Oil prices rose on Wednesday, after closing up 2% to a one-month high on Tuesday, as the latest attacks deepened a supply disruption in the Strait of Hormuz.

For the second straight session, Brent closed at its highest ​since June 12 and West Texas Intermediate at its highest since June 15.

Both contracts rose further in early Wednesday trading.