Perim Island, also called Mayun or Mayyun, is a small, rocky island off the southwestern coast of Yemen. Its location at the narrowest point of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, through which all shipping in the Red Sea and Suez Canal must pass, gives the island’s occupier a strategic advantage in monitoring traffic through the strait.
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