# Hormuz, Bab al-Mandeb must not be used as ‘bargaining chips’, analyst says

https://mins.news/en/video/60114

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-09-15 23:45 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJbOk6UOuLM

> Mohammed al-Hashemi, director of the Doha-based Middle East Insights Institute, says strategic waterways such as the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandeb should be kept out of international bargaining. His comments came as an attack-related shutdown of Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline threatened up to 5 percent of supply.

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