Overnight coverage still treated the fall of Mokha as the previous day's news, with Tehran calling for an end to the Yemen blockade and talks. By morning exile and state outlets reported successive Houthi advances to Dhubab and Perim/Mayyun island, then claimed full control of Yemen's Red Sea coast and the strait. Editors paired the battlefield claim with its price: Brent above $108, Asian stocks falling, and later the shutdown of Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline after multiple strikes.
Washington's response became the second thread: Axios reported Trump rejected a Saudi request for US strikes, while CENTCOM's commander flew to Riyadh and officials stressed freedom of navigation. Trump used 9/11 ceremonies to call Iran the top state sponsor of terrorism; Pezeshkian, arriving in Delhi for BRICS, answered in kind.