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Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi insurgents are emerging as an increasingly destructive force in the Middle East.

Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi insurgents are emerging as an increasingly destructive force in the Middle East.

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September 8th, 2026

Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi insurgents are emerging as an increasingly destructive force in the Middle East.

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The Houthi rebels of Yemen, who perpetrated a series of assaults on Saudi Arabian oil installations on Tuesday, have, over recent years, emerged as an increasingly destructive entity in the Middle East, targeting Israel, Saudi Arabia, and global shipping lanes in concert with Iran and allied militant factions.

ํ™”์š”์ผ ์‚ฌ์šฐ๋””์•„๋ผ๋น„์•„ ์„์œ  ์‹œ์„ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ผ๋ จ์˜ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฐํ–‰ํ•œ ์˜ˆ๋ฉ˜์˜ ํ›„ํ‹ฐ ๋ฐ˜๊ตฐ์€ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ด๋ž€ ๋ฐ ๋™๋งน ๋ฌด์žฅ ๋‹จ์ฒด์™€์˜ ๊ฒฐ์† ์†์—์„œ ์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜, ์‚ฌ์šฐ๋””์•„๋ผ๋น„์•„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํ•ด์šด ํ•ญ๋กœ๋ฅผ ํ‘œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ผ์•„ ์ค‘๋™ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์ ์ฆํ•˜๋Š” ํŒŒ๊ดด์  ์‹ค์ฒด๋กœ ๋ถ€์ƒํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

Since 2014, they have been embroiled in hostilities against Yemen's internationally recognized government, and in that year the rebel forces, having established their stronghold in the mountainous terrain, advanced southward and succeeded in seizing vast swathes of territory across the country's northern and central regions.

์ด๋“ค์€ 2014๋…„ ์ด๋ž˜๋กœ ์˜ˆ๋ฉ˜์˜ ๊ตญ์ œ์‚ฌํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๊ณต์ธํ•œ ์ •๋ถ€์™€ ๊ต์ „ ์ƒํƒœ์— ๋Œ์ž…ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ํ•ด ๋ฐ˜๊ตฐ ์„ธ๋ ฅ์€ ์‚ฐ์•… ์ง€๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ผ์•„ ๋‚จํ•˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ์˜ˆ๋ฉ˜ ๋ถ๋ถ€ ๋ฐ ์ค‘๋ถ€ ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ์˜ํ† ๋ฅผ ์žฅ์•…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

The following year witnessed Saudi Arabia's intervention in the conflict, throwing its weight behind the government.

์ด๋“ฌํ•ด์—๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฐ๋””์•„๋ผ๋น„์•„๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ถ€ ์ธก์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ถ„์Ÿ์— ๊ฐœ์ž…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The 2022 truce brought a near-total cessation of hostilities.

2022๋…„ ํœด์ „์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ „ํˆฌ ํ–‰์œ„๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์ค‘๋‹จ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

In the wake of Hamas's assault on October 7, 2023, which ignited the Gaza war, the Houthis unleashed a concentrated barrage of fire upon Israel and shipping lanes traversing the Red Sea.

ํ›„ํ‹ฐ๋Š” ํ•˜๋งˆ์Šค๊ฐ€ 2023๋…„ 10์›” 7์ผ ๊ฐํ–‰ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ด ๊ฐ€์ž ์ „์Ÿ์„ ์ด‰๋ฐœํ•œ ์ดํ›„, ์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜๊ณผ ํ™ํ•ด ํ•ด์šด ํ•ญ๋กœ์— ํฌํ™”๋ฅผ ์ง‘์ค‘์ ์œผ๋กœ ํผ๋ถ€์—ˆ๋‹ค.

These attacks subsided, however, following a series of airstrikes that the United States launched against the Houthis in early 2025.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด 2025๋…„ ์ดˆ ํ›„ํ‹ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ผ๋ จ์˜ ๊ณต์Šต์„ ๋‹จํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ž ์ž ํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.

The Houthis maintained a posture of passive observation during the initial violent phase of the Iranian war, yet by July they had resumed their offensive against Saudi Arabia and proclaimed a blockade against the oil-rich kingdom.

ํ›„ํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์ด๋ž€ ์ „์Ÿ์˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๊ฒฉ๋ ฌํ•œ ๊ตญ๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๊ด€์  ํƒœ๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฒฌ์ง€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, 7์›”์— ์ด๋ฅด๋Ÿฌ ์‚ฌ์šฐ๋””์•„๋ผ๋น„์•„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณต์„ธ๋ฅผ ์žฌ๊ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ์„์œ  ๊ฐ•๊ตญ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ด‰์‡„๋ฅผ ์„ ์–ธํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

Notwithstanding the Houthis' autonomous motives for confronting Saudi Arabia, this course of action aligns with Tehran's strategic interests, as it contributes to pressuring the oil-producing nations allied with the United States, thereby bolstering Iran's leverage in its own confrontation with Washington.

ํ›„ํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฐ๋””์™€ ๋Œ€์ ํ•  ๋…์ž์  ๋™๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‹ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์—๋„, ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ๋งž์„œ ๊ต์„ญ๋ ฅ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ํ…Œํ—ค๋ž€์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋™๋งน์ธ ์„์œ  ์ƒ์‚ฐ๊ตญ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์••๋ฐ•์„ ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์ด๋ž€์˜ ์ „๋žต์  ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์™€๋„ ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•œ๋‹ค.

The Houthis belong to the Zaydi sect of Shia Islam, a minority denomination, and governed Yemen for a millennium until 1962.

ํ›„ํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์ด์Šฌ๋žŒ์˜ ์†Œ์ˆ˜ ์ข…ํŒŒ์ธ ์‹œ์•„ํŒŒ ์ž์ด๋””ํŒŒ์— ์†ํ•œ ์ง‘๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ, 1962๋…„์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ฒœ ๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์˜ˆ๋ฉ˜์„ ํ†ต์น˜ํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Their official slogan is: "God is the greatest; death to America; death to Israel; curse upon the Jews; victory to Islam."

๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ณต์‹ ํ‘œ์–ด๋Š” "์‹ ์€ ์ง€๊ทนํžˆ ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•˜์‹œ๋‹ค; ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ์ฃฝ์Œ์„; ์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜์— ์ฃฝ์Œ์„; ์œ ๋Œ€์ธ์—๊ฒŒ ์ €์ฃผ๋ฅผ; ์ด์Šฌ๋žŒ์— ์Šน๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ"์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They had been engaged in hostilities with the Yemeni central government for several years prior to launching their 2014 offensive, yet they soon found themselves mired in a stalemate.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ 2014๋…„ ๊ณต์„ธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์‹œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ˆ˜๋…„ ์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜ˆ๋ฉ˜ ์ค‘์•™ ์ •๋ถ€์™€ ๊ต์ „์„ ๋ฒŒ์˜€์œผ๋‚˜, ๊ณง ๊ต์ฐฉ ๊ตญ๋ฉด์— ๋ด‰์ฐฉํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

The conflict has claimed the lives of approximately 150,000 people, and Yemen has intermittently teetered on the brink of famine.

์ด ๋ถ„์Ÿ์œผ๋กœ ์•ฝ 15๋งŒ ๋ช…์ด ์‚ฌ๋งํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์˜ˆ๋ฉ˜์€ ๊ฐ„ํ—์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๊ทผ์˜ ์œ„๊ธฐ์— ์ง๋ฉดํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

To compound matters, even prior to the outbreak of hostilities, Yemen ranked among the most impoverished nations in the Arab world.

์„ค์ƒ๊ฐ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ, ์ „์Ÿ ๋ฐœ๋ฐœ ์ด์ „์—๋„ ์˜ˆ๋ฉ˜์€ ์•„๋ž๊ถŒ์—์„œ ์ตœ๋นˆ๊ตญ์— ์†ํ•˜๋Š” ์ฒ˜์ง€์˜€๋‹ค.

The Saudi-led blockade effectively isolated the greater part of Houthi-controlled territory, including the capital, thereby exacerbating the humanitarian catastrophe within those confines.

์‚ฌ์šฐ๋””๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๋„ํ•œ ๋ด‰์‡„ ์กฐ์น˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋„๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ํ›„ํ‹ฐ ํ†ต์ œ ๊ตฌ์—ญ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ์‹œ์ผœ, ๊ทธ ์ง€์—ญ ๋‚ด ์ธ๋„์  ์ฐธ์ƒ์„ ์‹ฌํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Moreover, international censure is mounting against the Houthis' habitual detention of United Nations personnel and aid workers, a practice that has increasingly drawn global opprobrium.

๋”์šฑ์ด ํ›„ํ‹ฐ ์ธก์€ ์œ ์—” ์ง์› ๋ฐ ๊ตฌํ˜ธ ์ธ๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ตฌ๊ธˆ์„ ์ผ์‚ผ๋Š” ํ–‰ํƒœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ตญ์ œ์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ๋น„ํŒ ์—ฌ๋ก ์ด ์ฆํญ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹ค์ •์ด๋‹ค.

The 2022 truce agreement largely held its force until July of this year, yet the Houthis, in response to airstrikes on Sanaa International Airport, resumed their assaults against Saudi Arabia.

2022๋…„์˜ ํœด์ „ ํ˜‘์ •์€ ๋Œ€์ฒด๋กœ ๊ธˆ๋…„ 7์›”๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ทธ ํšจ๋ ฅ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋‚˜, ํ›„ํ‹ฐ ์ธก์€ ์‚ฌ๋‚˜ ๊ตญ์ œ๊ณตํ•ญ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณต์Šต์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ์‚ฌ์šฐ๋””์•„๋ผ๋น„์•„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์„ ์žฌ๊ฐœํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

The insurgents contended that the aforementioned airstrikes had effectively precluded the landing of flights originating from Iran.

๋ฐ˜๊ตฐ์€ ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ณต์Šต์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ด๋ž€๋ฐœ ํ•ญ๊ณตํŽธ์˜ ์ฐฉ๋ฅ™์ด ์ฐจ๋‹จ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

By proclaiming a blockade on Saudi shipping, the Houthis have imperiled a principal oil exporter at a juncture when turbulence in the Strait of Hormuz is precipitating a sharp escalation in crude prices.

ํ›„ํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฐ๋”” ํ•ด์šด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ด‰์‡„๋ฅผ ์„ ์–ธํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ฌด์ฆˆ ํ•ดํ˜‘์˜ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์ด ์œ ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ธ‰๋“ฑ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ์‹œ์ ์— ์ฃผ์š” ์„์œ  ์ˆ˜์ถœ๊ตญ์„ ์œ„ํ˜‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Moreover, they are menacing another pivotal trade artery traversing the Bab el-Mandeb and the Red Sea, through which 12% of global commerce transits under peacetime conditions.

๋˜ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํ‰์‹œ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๋ฌด์—ญ์˜ 12%๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝ์œ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋ธŒ์—˜๋งŒ๋ฐ๋ธŒ์™€ ํ™ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๊ด€ํ†ตํ•˜๋Š” ๋˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋ฌด์—ญ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ˜‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Saudi Arabia has unequivocally declared its resolve to retaliate against such attacks, yet it evinces a palpable reluctance to countenance an escalation into full-scale warfare.

์‚ฌ์šฐ๋””์•„๋ผ๋น„์•„๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋Œ€์‘ ์˜์ง€๋ฅผ ์ฒœ๋ช…ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์ „๋ฉด์ „์œผ๋กœ์˜ ํ™•์ „์€ ๊ธฐํ”ผํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ƒ‰์ด ์—ญ๋ ฅํ•˜๋‹ค.

The Houthis constitute a constituent of the armed coalition that maintains an adversarial posture toward Israelโ€”what Iran proudly dubs the so-called 'Axis of Resistance'โ€”a conglomerate that comprehensively encompasses Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and Tehran-backed militias operating within Iraq.

ํ›„ํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ ๋Œ€์  ์ž…์žฅ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌด์žฅ ์„ธ๋ ฅ ์—ฐํ•ฉ์ฒด, ์ฆ‰ ์ด๋ž€์ด ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์นญํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œ์œ„ '์ €ํ•ญ์˜ ์ถ•'์˜ ์ผ์›์œผ๋กœ์„œ, ์ด ์—ฐํ•ฉ์—๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ฐ”๋…ผ์˜ ํ—ค์ฆˆ๋ณผ๋ผ, ๊ฐ€์ž์˜ ํ•˜๋งˆ์Šค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋ผํฌ ๋‚ด ํ…Œํ—ค๋ž€์˜ ์ง€์›์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๋ฏผ๋ณ‘๋Œ€๋“ค์ด ํฌ๊ด„์ ์œผ๋กœ ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Iran denies allegations of supplying arms to the Houthi rebels in contravention of United Nations arms embargoes, yet the repeated seizures of Iranian-manufactured weaponry aboard vessels bound for Yemen cast considerable doubt upon the veracity of such denials.

์ด๋ž€์€ ์œ ์—” ๋ฌด๊ธฐ ๊ธˆ์ˆ˜ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์œ„๋ฐ˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ›„ํ‹ฐ ๋ฐ˜๊ตฐ์— ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ํ˜์˜๋ฅผ ๋ถ€์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์˜ˆ๋ฉ˜ํ–‰ ์„ ๋ฐ•์—์„œ ์ด๋ž€์‚ฐ ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์ฐจ๋ก€ ์••์ˆ˜๋œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ์–ด ๊ทธ ๋ถ€์ธ์€ ์‹ ๋น™์„ฑ์— ์˜๋ฌธ์ด ์ œ๊ธฐ๋œ๋‹ค.

The Houthis' geopolitical standing has been markedly elevated since the outbreak of the Gaza war, and they have launched missile and unmanned aerial vehicle attacks against Israel while beginning to target merchant vessels traversing the Red Sea.

ํ›„ํ‹ฐ์˜ ์ง€์ •ํ•™์  ์œ„์ƒ์€ ๊ฐ€์ž ์ „์Ÿ ๋ฐœ๋ฐœ ์ดํ›„ ํ˜„์ €ํžˆ ์ œ๊ณ ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜์„ ํ–ฅํ•œ ๋ฏธ์‚ฌ์ผ ๋ฐ ๋ฌด์ธํ•ญ๊ณต๊ธฐ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฐœ์‹œํ•˜๊ณ  ํ™ํ•ด๋ฅผ ์šดํ•ญํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒ์„ ๋“ค์„ ํ‘œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ผ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Although the Houthis have characterized these military actions as a blockade against Israel, the overwhelming majority of vessels actually targeted had no demonstrable connection to Israel or the Gaza conflict.

ํ›„ํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ์  ํ–‰์œ„๋ฅผ ์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ด‰์‡„ ์กฐ์น˜๋กœ ๊ทœ์ •ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ๋œ ์„ ๋ฐ•๋“ค์˜ ๋Œ€๋‹ค์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜ ํ˜น์€ ๊ฐ€์ž ์ „์Ÿ๊ณผ์˜ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ด€์„ฑ์ด ์ž…์ฆ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ƒํƒœ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Between November 2023 and December 2024, the Houthi insurgents, deploying missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, targeted over one hundred merchant vessels, sinking two of them and claiming the lives of four seafarers.

2023๋…„ 11์›”๊ณผ 2024๋…„ 12์›” ์‚ฌ์ด, ํ›„ํ‹ฐ ๋ฐ˜๊ตฐ์€ ๋ฏธ์‚ฌ์ผ๊ณผ ๋ฌด์ธํ•ญ๊ณต๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋™์›ํ•˜์—ฌ 100์ฒ™ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ƒ์„ ์„ ํ‘œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ผ์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ์ค‘ ๋‘ ์ฒ™์„ ๊ฒฉ์นจ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์„ ์› 4๋ช…์˜ ๋ชฉ์ˆจ์„ ์•—์•„๊ฐ”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Their offensive precipitated a pronounced contraction in the flow of commerce along the Red Sea shipping lanes, through which cargoes typically amounting to one trillion dollars transit annually.

๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ณต์„ธ๋Š” ํ†ต์ƒ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ 1์กฐ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ํ™”๋ฌผ์ด ์˜ค๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ™ํ•ด ํ•ญ๋กœ์˜ ๊ต์—ญ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ํ˜„์ €ํžˆ ์œ„์ถ•์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The United States and Israel ultimately retaliated in 2025 by launching a series of airstrikes, which brought about a near-total cessation of the attacks.

๋ฏธํ•ฉ์ค‘๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ 2025๋…„์— ์ผ๋ จ์˜ ๊ณต์Šต ์ž‘์ „์„ ๊ฐํ–‰ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๋Œ€์‘์— ๋‚˜์„ฐ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ ํ–‰์œ„๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์ค‘๋‹จ๋˜๋Š” ์–‘์ƒ์„ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.

By resuming their assaults on the Yemeni government forces, the Houthis have claimed the lives of dozens of soldiers and civilians alike.

ํ›„ํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์˜ˆ๋ฉ˜ ์ •๋ถ€๊ตฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์„ ์žฌ๊ฐœํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋ช…์— ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ตฐ์ธ ๋ฐ ๋ฏผ๊ฐ„์ธ์˜ ์ƒ๋ช…์„ ์•—์•„๊ฐ”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Furthermore, they have repeatedly targeted Saudi oil tankers, thereby severely impeding maritime transport in the Red Sea.

๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์‚ฌ์šฐ๋”” ์œ ์กฐ์„ ์„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฐจ๋ก€ ํ‘œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ผ์•„ ํ™ํ•ด์—์„œ์˜ ํ•ด์ƒ ์šด์†ก์„ ์‹ฌ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ €ํ•ดํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

In the wake of the Iran-Iraq War, as Saudi Arabia commenced the conveyance of crude oil to the Red Sea via pipelines traversing the Arabian Peninsulaโ€”thereby circumventing the Strait of Hormuzโ€”the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait has come to discharge a strategic function tantamount to that of a pressure-regulating valve.

์ด๋ž€-์ด๋ผํฌ ์ „์Ÿ ๋ฐœ๋ฐœ ์ดํ›„, ์‚ฌ์šฐ๋””์•„๋ผ๋น„์•„๊ฐ€ ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ฌด์ฆˆ ํ•ดํ˜‘์„ ์šฐํšŒํ•˜์—ฌ ์•„๋ผ๋น„์•„ ๋ฐ˜๋„๋ฅผ ์ข…๋‹จํ•˜๋Š” ์†ก์œ ๊ด€์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์›์œ ๋ฅผ ํ™ํ•ด๋กœ ์ˆ˜์†กํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ๋ฐ”๋ธŒ์—˜๋งŒ๋ฐ๋ธŒ ํ•ดํ˜‘์€ ์ผ์ข…์˜ ์••๋ ฅ ์กฐ์ ˆ ๋ฐธ๋ธŒ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ „๋žต์  ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

When Iran effectively imposed a blockade upon that strait, the global economy was plunged into profound turbulence, precipitating a precipitous surge in the prices of fuel and sundry commodities that reverberated far beyond the Middle East to every corner of the world.

์ด๋ž€์ด ํ•ด๋‹น ํ•ดํ˜‘์„ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ๋ด‰์‡„ํ•˜์ž ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋Š” ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ๋™์š”๋ฅผ ๊ฒช์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ค‘๋™์„ ๋„˜์–ด ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ƒํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ๊ธ‰๊ฒฉํžˆ ์น˜์†Ÿ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Houthis proclaim that their attacks on Saudi tankers are aimed at lifting the Saudi-led blockade.

ํ›„ํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฐ๋”” ์œ ์กฐ์„ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ด ์‚ฌ์šฐ๋”” ์ฃผ๋„์˜ ๋ด‰์‡„ ํ•ด์ œ๋ฅผ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฒœ๋ช…ํ•œ๋‹ค.

However, by opening a new front in a regional conflict whose end is nowhere in sight, such military provocations also serve, in effect, to advance Iran's strategic interests.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ์  ๋„๋ฐœ์€ ์ข…๋ง์ด ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ง€์—ญ ๋ถ„์Ÿ์— ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ „์„ ์„ ๊ฐœ์ฒ™ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ž€์˜ ์ „๋žต์  ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์—๋„ ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•˜๋Š” ์ธก๋ฉด์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

September 8th, 2026

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