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"The question now is whether control of the coastline, ports, and territory around the Bab al-Mandab Strait, at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, will substantially expand the group’s financial power – or primarily increase its military leverage. “[Houthi] control over the Mocha coast and Bab al-Mandab will not be met by a world standing idly by or paying royalties and levies to the Houthis; there will be a confrontation or conflict of some kind to settle this issue,” al-Shalafi said."

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