{"id":285019,"date":"2026-09-09T08:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T08:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/285019\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T08:58:07","slug":"oil-price-passes-100-per-barrel-as-us-iran-fighting-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/285019\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Price Passes $100 Per Barrel As US-Iran Fighting Resumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil briefly jumped above $100 a barrel on Wednesday before pulling back below the threshold, as escalating fighting in the Middle East raised fears of further supply disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>Early in European trading, Brent crude, the global benchmark, reached $100.07, before pulling back to around $99.90 as of 4:30 a.m. ET. The move above $100 was the first since July 24.<\/p>\n<p>Brent has climbed about 25% since early August as hopes for a lasting end to the six-month US-Iran conflict have faded. American forces attacked Iranian tankers after Tehran tried to strike a US Navy warship with ballistic missiles, the US military said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks by Iran-backed Houthi militants this week also set Saudi energy facilities on fire, adding to concerns about oil shipments through the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oil briefly jumped above $100 a barrel on Wednesday before pulling back below the threshold, as escalating fighting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[11834,84,2551,1223,1872,77336,29361,34,77335,36640,213,77337,1219,77334,2863,5094],"class_list":["post-285019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-american-force","tag-attack","tag-ballistic-missile","tag-barrel","tag-brent-crude","tag-early-august","tag-fear","tag-iran","tag-iran-backed-houthi-militant","tag-iranian-tanker","tag-oil","tag-saudi-energy-facility","tag-strait","tag-us-iran-fighting-resumes","tag-wednesday","tag-week"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117240260396527917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285019","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=285019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}