2026年6月12日 美国东部时间09:47 / 福克斯新闻网
美国国务院称胡塞武装的红海航运禁令不可接受且极具危险性
作者：保罗·蒂尔斯利 福克斯新闻网
发布于2026年6月12日 美国东部时间上午9:47
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美国已对伊朗恐怖代理组织胡塞武装威胁封锁另一条中东水道的行为作出回击。
本周早些时候，该组织宣布全面禁止以色列船只使用红海，并将其列为“合法打击目标”。
自霍尔木兹海峡实际上已不再是主要航运通道以来，红海及其狭窄的曼德海峡航道已成为中东石油运往亚洲的主要路线。
伊朗在非洲的活动对美国国家安全构成“重大威胁”
胡塞武装发言人叶海亚·萨雷亚于周一发文称：“我们宣布全面彻底禁止以色列船只在红海航行，我们将所有敌方船只的行动都视为合法打击目标。”
美国国务院发言人在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中回应道：“伊朗及其胡塞代理武装的升级行动不可接受。这些危险举动只会进一步激化紧张局势，扰乱全球供应链。我们将继续与合作伙伴一道，确保红海和霍尔木兹海峡的航行自由。”
美国国防民主基金会高级研究员埃德蒙·菲顿-布朗告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“胡塞武装确实已回应了这一挑战，至少在口头上如此。与目前‘抵抗轴心’的诸多言论一样，其意图似乎是利用美国的政治焦虑和市场波动，离间美国与以色列的关系。”
曾任英国驻也门大使的菲顿-布朗补充道：“只要盟国保持沟通协调，以色列像以往那样采取相称回应，且伊朗继续通过击落直升机等行动挑衅特朗普总统，这些战术不太可能取得显著成效。”
“如果胡塞武装真的全力以赴，全面恢复针对红海航运的行动，那将是个值得关注的情况，”菲顿-布朗说道，并补充道，“这将引发国际公愤，以色列和美国很可能会对萨那和荷台达发动打击。若真发生这种情况，局势存在全面升级的风险，尽管盟国在军事上拥有明显优势。”
美国袭击也门行动持续，胡塞武装导弹击中以色列机场；恐怖组织扬言实施“空中封锁”
内陆国家埃塞俄比亚充当地区反恐缓冲带
上述行动发生之际，有报道称红海地区人口最多的国家埃塞俄比亚正加强作为美国打击伊斯兰恐怖主义的主要盟友的角色。
尽管是内陆国家，埃塞俄比亚拥有约1.3亿人口，是非洲之角最大的国家。据宗教数据档案协会近期的一份报告显示，该国位于红海航道附近，约60%的人口信奉基督教。
尽管是内陆国家，埃塞俄比亚研究员布伦·M·德里巴告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，该国在从伊朗延伸至苏丹的伊斯兰扩张主义“高速公路”上扮演着战略障碍或“关键国家”的角色。
德里巴是亚的斯亚贝巴研究与出版智库“之角评论”的执行主任，他告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“埃塞俄比亚长期以来是美国的一线安全合作伙伴，如今正处于一个不断扩大的压力区域的中心，海上中断、叛乱暴力、恐怖威胁和代理竞争在此交织。”
德里巴补充道：“伊朗对曼德海峡的威胁将非洲之角变成了军事化的前线，使埃塞俄比亚陷入关键的封锁点危机。随着伊朗影响力通过苏丹、厄立特里亚和索马里的冲突生态系统扩散，该地区开始形成一条从阿拉伯半岛延伸至东非的持续不稳定弧线。”
“埃塞俄比亚地处世界上最易发生冲突的安全走廊之一的中心，”德里巴继续说道，“从战略角度看，这一现实非但没有削弱，反而放大了它对美国的重要性：从胡塞武装造成的红海中断，到索马里青年党持续存在的叛乱威胁，埃塞俄比亚都是一个巨大的内陆安全缓冲带，其稳定直接决定着这些威胁是扩散还是得到遏制。”
伊朗致命无人机加剧苏丹地区屠杀，这场战争被世界遗忘
但埃塞俄比亚除了亲美立场外，也与伊朗保持着外交关系。
菲顿-布朗认为，埃塞俄比亚在某种程度上可以被指责为两面下注，他表示德黑兰“在近期的提格雷战争中为埃塞俄比亚政府提供了无人机支持和军事援助，帮助埃塞俄比亚应对国内冲突”。
他补充道：“在此基础上达成的新谅解备忘录，使伊朗在埃塞俄比亚获得影响力，而埃塞俄比亚则获得军事、警察和情报支持，以应对国内的民族叛乱。”
不过，德里巴表示：“埃塞俄比亚与伊朗的接触既非出于情谊，也非结盟，而是战略考量：在必要时保持沟通渠道畅通，有选择地开展合作，并战略性地管理与这个复杂地区大国的关系，同时牢牢将核心伙伴关系锚定在新兴和长期合作伙伴身上——美国位居首位。”
“埃塞俄比亚奉行灵活的多方位结盟战略，”德里巴说道，“优先巩固与华盛顿根深蒂固的安全伙伴关系，同时与德黑兰保持沟通渠道，以便在日益碎片化的非洲之角-红海秩序中保留外交周旋空间。”
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菲顿-布朗表示，美埃两国关系“良好，尤其是在反恐领域。两国都利用索马里兰实现自身利益，但尚未承认其为独立国家”。
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系美国战争部和埃塞俄比亚政府置评，但截至发稿未收到回复。
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Expert warns of ‘general escalation’ of fighting if Houthis resume Red Sea campaign
2026-06-12 09:47 EDT / Fox News
State Department calls Houthi Red Sea shipping ban unacceptable and dangerous
By Paul Tilsley Fox News
Published June 12, 2026 9:47am EDT
Progress with Iran can only be achieved ‘by force,’ expert warns
President Trump hints at an imminent peace deal with Iran, suggesting the Supreme Leader has approved it and the US will lift blockades. Rebecca Heinrichs, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow, expresses skepticism, citing Iran’s continued harassment in the Strait of Hormuz and its nuclear program. She also addresses reports of the US cutting fighter jets in Europe, questioning the timing given escalating tensions with Russia.
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The U.S. has hit back against threats to now block another Middle East waterway by Iranian terror proxy, the Houthis.
Earlier this week, the group declared a complete ban on Israeli-owned ships using the Red Sea, declaring them to be “legitimate targets.”
The Red Sea and the waterway through its narrow Bab-el Mandeb Strait has become the main route for oil to ship out of the Middle East to Asia since the Strait of Hormuz has effectively stopped functioning as the main route of navigation for shipping.
IRAN’S AFRICA ACTIVITIES POSE ‘SIGNIFICANT THREATS TO US NATIONAL SECURITY’
Houthi terrorists walk over British and U.S. flags at a rally supporting Palestinians amid Houthi strikes on shipping near Sana’a, Yemen, on Feb. 4, 2024.(Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)
Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree posted on Monday, “We declare a complete and total ban on Israeli maritime navigation in the Red Sea, and we consider all enemy movements to be legitimate targets.”
In a statement to Fox News Digital, a State Department spokesperson struck back: “The escalatory actions of Iran and their Houthi proxies are unacceptable.These dangerous actions only serve to further enflame tensions and further disrupt global supply chains. We will continue to work with our partners to ensure freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz.”
Edmund Fitton-Brown, a senior fellow at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital, “The Houthis have indeed risen to the challenge, at least verbally. In common with much ‘Axis of Resistance’ rhetoric at present, the intention appears to be to leverage U.S. political nervousness and market volatility, and to drive a wedge between the Americans and the Israelis.”
An aerial view of The Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which is a sea route connecting the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal.(Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2021)
Fitton-Brown, a former U.K. ambassador to Yemen, added, “Provided the allies keep talking to each other, the Israelis respond proportionately, as they have done, and the Iranians continue to provoke President Trump with actions like the downing of the helicopter, these tactics are unlikely to achieve significant success.”
“It will be interesting if the Houthis do go all in, and resume their campaign against Red Sea shipping with full intensity,” Fitton-Brown said, adding, “This will draw international anger and likely result in Israeli and U.S. strikes on Sana’a and Hodeida. There is potential for a general escalation if this happens, albeit one in which the allies have a clear military advantage.”
US STRIKES ON YEMEN CONTINUE AFTER HOUTHI MISSILE HITS BY ISRAELI AIRPORT; TERROR GROUP VOWS ‘AERIAL BLOCKADE’
A huge column of fire erupts in the Yemeni rebel-held port city of Hodeida following reported strikes on July 20, 2024. The strikes targeted a fuel depot in the port, according to Houthi-run media and an AFP correspondent.
Landlocked Ethiopia acts as regional anti-terrorism buffer
Such actions come as reports emerge that Ethiopia, the Red Sea region’s most populous country, is stepping up as a major U.S. ally against Islamic terrorism.
While landlocked, Ethiopia has a population of some 130 million, making it the largest nation in the Horn of Africa. Located near parts of the Red Sea corridor, the country is roughly 60% Christian, according to a recent report by the Association of Religion Data Archives.
World Data Locator Map, Ethiopia.(Encyclopedia Britannica/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
And despite it being landlocked, Ethiopian researcher Blen M. Diriba told Fox News Digital that the country acts as a strategic roadblock or “a keystone state” on the Islamist expansionist “highway” that has formed all the way from Iran to Sudan.
Diriba, executive director of the Horn Review — an Addis Ababa-based research and publication think tank — told Fox News Digital that “Ethiopia, long a frontline U.S. security partner, now sits at the center of an expanding pressure zone where maritime disruption, insurgent violence, terrorist threats, and proxy competition converge.”
Diriba added. “Iran’s Bab el-Mandeb threat transforms the Horn of Africa into a militarized frontline, placing Ethiopia at the center of a choke point crisis. With Iranian influence radiating through conflict ecosystems in Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia, the region is beginning to resemble a continuous arc of instability stretching from the Arabian Peninsula into East Africa.”
“Ethiopia sits at the center of one of the world’s most combustible security corridors,” Diriba continued. “And in strategic terms, its relevance to the United States is amplified, not diminished, by that reality: From the Red Sea disruptions driven by the Houthis to the persistent insurgency threat of al-Shabab in Somalia, Ethiopia functions as a massive inland security buffer whose stability directly shapes whether these threats expand or are contained.”
IRAN’S KILLER DRONES INCREASE SLAUGHTER IN SUDAN AMID WORLD’S FORGOTTEN WAR
Members of the Ethiopian National Defense Force parade during the 116th celebration of Ethiopian Defense Force day in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Oct. 26, 2023.(Amanuel Sileshi/AFP via Getty Images)
But in addition to being pro-U.S., Ethiopia also has relations with Iran.
Fitton-Brown believes to some extent Ethiopia can be accused of playing both sides, as he said Tehran “has helped Ethiopia with its internal conflicts, giving drone support and military aid to the Ethiopian government during the recent Tigray War.”
He added, “There is a new memorandum of understanding built upon that basis, with Iran gaining influence in Ethiopia, while Ethiopia receives military, police and intelligence support to counter its domestic ethnic insurgencies.”
However, Diriba said, “Ethiopia’s engagement with Iran is neither affinity nor alignment, it’s strategic awareness: keeping channels open to engage where necessary, cooperate selectively, and strategically manage its relations with a complex regional actor, while firmly anchoring its core partnerships with its emerging and long-standing partners — the United States being on the top of that list.”
A drone view shows vessels anchored in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, May 25, 2026.(Stringer TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY via Reuters)
“Ethiopia has pursued a flexible multi-alignment strategy, Diriba said, “prioritizing its entrenched security partnership with Washington while keeping open channels with Tehran to preserve diplomatic room to maneuver in an increasingly fragmented Horn of Africa–Red Sea order.”
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Fitton-Brown said relations between the U.S. and Ethiopia “are good, especially in the field of counterterrorism. Both countries use Somaliland to their advantage without having gone so far as to recognize it as an independent state.”
Fox News Digital reached out to both the Department of War and the Ethiopian government for comment, but received no response by the time of publication.
Paul Tilsley is a veteran correspondent who has reported from four continents for more than three decades. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, he can be followed on X @paultilsley.