Crude imports from the Middle East fell about 27% to 1.55 million barrels per day during the April-June period. (PTI photo of oil tanker) DUBAI: Two oil tankers carrying Saudi crude to Asia reversed course in the Red Sea on Tuesday after threats from Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis, as a widening Middle East conflict disrupted ?shipping through two of the world’s most critical energy chokepoints. US forces bombed targets in ?the south and west of Iran overnight, while Iran targeted US sites in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan and a tanker was hit in the Strait of ?Hormuz at the mouth of…
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