{"id":73586,"date":"2026-04-19T23:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/73586\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T23:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:02:10","slug":"oil-prices-rise-anew-amid-a-us-iran-standoff-in-the-strait-of-hormuz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/73586\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise anew amid a US-Iran standoff in the Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Oil prices rose in early trading Sunday as a standoff between Iran and the U.S.<\/a> prevented tankers from using the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, the Persian Gulf waterway that is crucial to global energy supplies.<\/p>\n

The price of U.S. crude oil increased 6.4% to $87.88 per barrel after trading resumed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The price of Brent crude, the international standard, climbed 6.5% to $96.25 per barrel.<\/p>\n

The market reaction followed more than two days of growing hopes and dashed expectations involving the strait. Iran, which effectively controls<\/a> the passage, said Friday that it would fully reopen the passage off its coast to commercial traffic. Crude prices plunged more than 9% on the news.<\/p>\n

Tehran reversed its decision<\/a> on Saturday, after President Donald Trump said a U.S. Navy blockade of Iranian ports<\/a> would remain in effect. Over the weekend, Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard fired on several vessels. Trump reported the forcible seizure<\/a> of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that tried to get around the blockade. <\/p>\n

The US-Israeli war against Iran, now in its eighth week, has created one of the worst global energy crises in decades<\/a>. Countries in Asia and Europe that import much of their oil from the Middle East have felt the most impact of halted supplies and production cuts, although rapidly rising gasoline<\/a>, diesel and jet fuel<\/a> prices are affecting businesses and consumers worldwide. <\/p>\n

Asked when he thought U.S. motorists would again see gas cost less than $3 a gallon on average, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said prices at the pump might not go down that much until next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut prices have likely peaked, and they\u2019ll start going down,\u201d Wright told CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The price of crude oil \u2014 the main ingredient in gasoline \u2014 has fluctated dramatically since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, and as Iran retaliated with airstrikes on other Gulf states. Crude traded at roughly $70 a barrel before the conflict, spiked to more than $119 at times, and previously closed Friday at $82.59 for U.S. oil and $90.38 for Brent. <\/p>\n

Industry analysts have repeatedly warned that the longer the strait is closed, the worse prices could get. <\/p>\n

A fragile, two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is set to expire Wednesday, while escalating tensions in the Strait of Hormuz puts the fate of new talks to end the war into question<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even if a lasting deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz emerges, analysts say it could take months<\/a> for oil shipments to return to normal levels and for fuel prices to go down. Backed-up tanker traffic, shipowners concerned about another sudden escalation, and energy infrastructure damaged during the war are factors that could impede production and shipment volumes from returning to pre-war levels. <\/p>\n

A gallon of regular gas cost an average of nearly $4.05 a gallon in the U.S. on Sunday, according to motor club federation AAA. That\u2019s about 8 cents lower than a week ago, but far higher than $2.98 before the war. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Oil prices rose in early trading Sunday as a standoff between Iran and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[719,2371,24308,328,5944,38,2276,197,34,61,196,2222,101,69,782,51,323,781,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-73586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","9":"tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","10":"tag-blockades","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-christopher-wright","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-energy-markets","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-iran","17":"tag-iran-government","18":"tag-iran-war","19":"tag-oil-and-gas-industry","20":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","21":"tag-tehran","22":"tag-u-s-news","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-government","25":"tag-waterways","26":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116433868745274912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73586","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=73586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}