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Saudi Arabia Calls Mecca a ‘Red Line’ After Alleged Houthi Drone Attack

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The Houthis deny targeting the holy site as their Red Sea advances threaten oil supplies and widen a regional conflict shaped by the Iran war.

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The US-Iran war has reached crisis point for Saudi Arabia and its de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as the Houthis started firing at the kingdom on a near-daily basis this month. The hostilities had already pushed Saudi oil production to the lowest level in decades and they now threaten to complicate the kingdom’s multi-trillion dollar…

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