{"id":18121,"date":"2026-07-21T17:09:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/21\/ansarullah-saudi-naval-blockade-oil-tankers-red-sea\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:09:44","slug":"ansarullah-saudi-naval-blockade-oil-tankers-red-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/21\/ansarullah-saudi-naval-blockade-oil-tankers-red-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansarullah Declares Saudi Naval Blockade; Oil Tankers Divert Course in Red Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following Ansarullah&#8217;s announcement of a Saudi naval blockade, at least two oil tankers carrying Saudi crude oil in the Red Sea have changed their course towards the Suez Canal.<\/p>\n<p>These tankers, which were transporting Saudi oil shipments to China and India, altered their original routes after receiving warnings from Ansarullah. Additionally, a military source told the Saba news agency that six other ships returned after the blockade declaration.<\/p>\n<p>Ansarullah has warned shipping companies to refrain from loading or unloading goods at Saudi ports, stating that such actions could be targeted &#8220;anywhere.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Ali Al-Dailami, a member of Ansarullah\u2019s political office, told Al Mayadeen network that if Saudi Arabia continues its blockade on Yemen, the movement has a clear strategy to respond and that Western fleets will not assist Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>Ansarullah forces control parts of the Bab al-Mandeb coastline, a strategic passage at the entrance to the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia\u2019s Yanbu port on the Red Sea coast is one of the key routes for transporting millions of barrels of Middle Eastern oil to global markets, and any tensions in this area could impact energy supply routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ansarullah announces Saudi naval blockade; several oil tankers redirect routes in the Red Sea amid tensions affecting key energy shipping lanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}