It’s important to understand the significance of the Houthi assaults on positions vital to trade through the Bab al-Mandab Strait and their drone attack on Saudi oil pumping stations. I realise it won’t have registered with the MAGA faithful yet, but this is a BIG deal and shows the coordination between Iran and the Houthis. Who better to consult than Maryam Ishani. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZN8jaFFUF/

Looks like the Houthis might have actually scored a direct hit on the E/W pipeline. Confidence flag is tagged at maximum, and FRP printing above 70 MW blows way past conventional fire(~30 MW). FRP >70 MW scream high-pressure crude rupture and blowout conflagration. Brightness is literally maxing out and clipping the saturation cap on the VIIRS I4 band. Cross-referencing the delta between VIIRS and MODIS orbital passes, FRP anomaly printed 60+ MW for an 8 hour duration minimum. A garden-variety valve leak or routine gas venting simply cannot sustain that burn duration or heat signature. Faded the controlled burn or flare stack hypothesis too. Pump stations sit dozens of clicks apart on the ROW, but these heat anomalies are tightly clustered along a sub-10km stretch. No normal maintenance operation or controlled burn is conducted on such a massive scale simultaneously across multiple points spaced just kilometers apart along the pipeline route. Something definitely went down. #oott #iran