{"id":68820,"date":"2026-03-12T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/middle-east-war-creating-largest-supply-disruption-in-the-history-of-oil-markets\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:59:33","slug":"middle-east-war-creating-largest-supply-disruption-in-the-history-of-oil-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/middle-east-war-creating-largest-supply-disruption-in-the-history-of-oil-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East war creating \u2018largest supply disruption in the history of oil markets\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vast release of emergency crude reserves fails to quell mounting fears about supply crunch, rattling markets<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/12\/iran-war-live-updates-oil-trump-middle-east-crisis-israel-lebanon-iraq-latest-news\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oil markets are now facing the \u201clargest supply disruption in history\u201d as the war in Iran continues to block tankers from producing and shipping millions of barrels of crude each day, the world energy watchdog has warned.<\/p>\n<p>The International Energy Agency (IEA) said the supply shock ignited by Iran\u2019s effective blockade of the strait of Hormuz meant the world faced a deeper crisis than after the Yom Kippur war of 1973 and the 2022 outbreak of war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/12\/middle-east-war-creating-largest-supply-disruption-in-the-history-of-oil-markets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vast release of emergency crude reserves fails to quell mounting fears about supply crunch, rattling markets Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates Oil markets are now facing the \u201clargest supply disruption in history\u201d as the war in Iran continues to block tankers from producing and shipping millions of barrels of crude each day, the world &#8230; <a title=\"Middle East war creating \u2018largest supply disruption in the history of oil markets\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/middle-east-war-creating-largest-supply-disruption-in-the-history-of-oil-markets\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Middle East war creating \u2018largest supply disruption in the history of oil markets\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}