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Operating in coordination with [[Ansar Allah]]'s consolidation of the [[Yemen]]i [[Red Sea]] coast (including the [[strategic]] port of Mocha and littoral islands commanding the southern [[maritime]] approaches), deep-strike one-way attack [[drone]]s struck booster stations along the 5-million-barrel-per-day Petroline. The [[infrastructure]]—built specifically to transport [[crude oil]] from the Eastern Province to Yanbu on the Red Sea to bypass the [[Strait of Hormuz]]—was shut down entirely by [[Saudi Aramco]] following significant infrastructure damage. Intelligence assessments indicate the strike packages may have originated from [[Iraq]]i resistance factions operating with regional coordination.

Operating in coordination with [[Ansar Allah]]'s consolidation of the [[Yemen]]i [[Red Sea]] coast (including the [[strategic]] port of Mocha and littoral islands commanding the southern [[maritime]] approaches), deep-strike one-way attack [[drone]]s struck booster stations along the 5-million-barrel-per-day Petroline. The [[infrastructure]]—built specifically to transport [[crude oil]] from the Eastern Province to Yanbu on the Red Sea to bypass the [[Strait of Hormuz]]—was shut down entirely by [[Saudi Aramco]] following significant infrastructure damage. Intelligence assessments indicate the strike packages may have originated from [[Iraq]]i resistance factions operating with regional coordination.

Confronted with an existential [[revenue]] halt, Crown Prince [[Mohammed bin Salman]] placed two consecutive emergency telephone calls in one day to [[US]] [[President Donald Trump]], demanding immediate, sustained U.S. [[air carrier]] strikes against [[Houthi]] command networks and coastal launch complexes. Trump flatly refused. Preoccupied with collapsing [[domestic]] polling and the political drag of high fuel prices, the [[White House]] is unwilling to deploy limited [[naval]] aviation into a protracted Red Sea air campaign that would accelerate [[PAC-3]] and [[SM-6]] exhaustion.

Confronted with an existential [[revenue]] halt, Crown Prince [[Mohammed bin Salman]] placed two consecutive emergency telephone calls in one day to [[US]] [[President Donald Trump]], demanding immediate, sustained U.S. [[aircraft carrier]] strikes against [[Houthi]] command networks and coastal launch complexes. Trump flatly refused. Preoccupied with collapsing [[domestic]] polling and the political drag of high fuel prices, the [[White House]] is unwilling to deploy limited [[naval]] aviation into a protracted Red Sea air campaign that would accelerate [[PAC-3]] and [[SM-6]] exhaustion.

The refusal left [[Riyadh]] isolated. Having distanced the Kingdom from the [[BRICS]] integration process and frozen the 2023 [[Beijing]]-brokered normalization with [[Tehran]] to realign with [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]], [[MBS]] faces fiscal depletion without [[security guarantee]]s.

The refusal left [[Riyadh]] isolated. Having distanced the Kingdom from the [[BRICS]] integration process and frozen the 2023 [[Beijing]]-brokered normalization with [[Tehran]] to realign with [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]], [[MBS]] faces fiscal depletion without [[security guarantee]]s.