{"id":265855,"date":"2026-08-26T16:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/265855\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T16:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:59:16","slug":"oil-prices-fall-as-iran-and-oman-discuss-reopening-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/265855\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Fall as Iran and Oman Discuss Reopening Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u ex0k10u0\">Oil prices fell for a third straight day after <a data-type=\"place\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/place\/iran\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iran<\/a> and Oman discussed measures to temporarily reopen the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u ex0k10u0\">In early U.S. trade, Brent crude oil for October delivery fell 2.5% to $86.38 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate dropped 2.2% to $80.53 a barrel, after earlier trading below the $80 mark. The contracts are on track to settle at their lowest levels in close to two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oil prices fell for a third straight day after Iran and Oman discussed measures to temporarily reopen the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[488,5964,5977,2165,5961,5962,1822,5955,52904,52905,52906,154,2276,5963,5978,911,897,5966,197,5953,46346,102,1743,34,72964,49,857,47500,1737,213,5954,181,5975,5957,81,35934,101,5965,51,5967],"class_list":["post-265855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-asia","tag-ce-exclusion-filter","tag-commodity","tag-commodity-markets","tag-commodity-financial-market-news","tag-content-types","tag-crude-oil-markets","tag-developing-economies","tag-dragonfly-middle-east","tag-dragonfly-north-america","tag-dragonfly-world","tag-energy","tag-energy-markets","tag-factiva-filters","tag-financial-market-news","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-gas","tag-gcapi","tag-general-news","tag-hard-commodities","tag-hard-commodities-markets","tag-hormuz","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-linkendrnrealtime-linkedarticle-dnco20260826004409","tag-middle-east","tag-middle-east-and-north-africa","tag-newsplus","tag-north-america","tag-oil","tag-oil-gas","tag-oman","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-politics","tag-politics-international-relations","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-synd","tag-united-states","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}