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🇨🇳🇮🇷 CHINA URGES IRAN TO REIN IN HOUTHI RED SEA ATTACKS - China privately requested Tehran to help curb Yemen's Houthi attacks following a direct appeal to Beijing from Saudi Arabia. The request came after rapid Houthi advances along the Red Sea coast increased security risks for regional energy routes and Saudi oil exports. - Beijing warned that escalating instability harms shared economic interests along critical trade corridors, though Chinese officials issued no explicit threats. Iranian sources said Tehran responded that regional peace depends on ending wider U.S. and Israeli actions.