{"id":759005,"date":"2026-04-28T13:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/759005\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:16:16","slug":"uae-leaves-opec-and-opec-opec-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/759005\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE leaves OPEC and OPEC+ | OPEC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"post-label__text\">DEVELOPING STORY<\/strong>DEVELOPING STORY, <\/p>\n<p>Published On 28 Apr 202628 Apr 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The United \u200cArab Emirates said on Tuesday it quit OPEC and OPEC+, dealing \u2060a heavy \u2060blow to the oil exporting groups at a time when the Iran war has caused \u2060a historic energy shock and unsettled the global economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">OPEC Gulf producers have already been struggling to ship exports through the Strait of Hormuz, a \u200cnarrow chokepoint between Iran and Oman through which a fifth of the world\u2019s crude oil and liquefied natural gas normally passes, because of Iranian threats and attacks against vessels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">United States President Donald Trump has accused OPEC of \u201cripping off the rest of the world\u201d by inflating oil \u2060prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Trump has also linked US military support for \u2060the Gulf with oil prices, saying that while the US defends OPEC members, they \u201cexploit this by imposing high oil prices\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The move came after the UAE criticised fellow Arab states for not doing enough to protect it from \u2060numerous Iranian attacks during the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Anwar Gargash, the \u2060diplomatic adviser for the UAE president, criticised the Arab and Gulf response to the Iranian attacks in a session at the Gulf Influencers Forum on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe Gulf Cooperation Council countries supported \u200ceach other logistically, but politically and militarily, I think their position has been the weakest historically,\u201d Gargash said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI expect this weak stance from the \u200cArab \u200cLeague and I am not surprised by it, but I haven\u2019t expected it from the [Gulf] Cooperation Council and I am surprised by it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Published On 28 Apr 202628 Apr 2026 The United \u200cArab Emirates said on Tuesday it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":759006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,3097,50,24521,52,10317],"class_list":["post-759005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-headlines","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-opec","tag-top-stories","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116482525684018011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}