{"id":69002,"date":"2026-03-15T08:55:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/why-the-war-in-iran-is-driving-up-gas-prices-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:55:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:55:46","slug":"why-the-war-in-iran-is-driving-up-gas-prices-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/why-the-war-in-iran-is-driving-up-gas-prices-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the War in Iran Is Driving up Gas Prices in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei declared this week that the Strait of Hormuz, a gateway to some 20% of the world\u2019s oil, would remain closed. Now, with gas prices spiking dramatically in the U.S. since the beginning of the war, the Trump administration is scrambling to defend against Iran\u2019s most powerful weapon. NBC\u2019s Brian Cheung reports in this week\u2019s Sunday Focus.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei declared this week that the Strait of Hormuz, a gateway to some 20% of the world\u2019s oil, would remain closed. Now, with gas prices spiking dramatically in the U.S. since the beginning of the war, the Trump administration is scrambling to defend against Iran\u2019s most powerful weapon. NBC\u2019s Brian &#8230; <a title=\"Why the War in Iran Is Driving up Gas Prices in the US\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/why-the-war-in-iran-is-driving-up-gas-prices-in-the-us\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why the War in Iran Is Driving up Gas Prices in the US\">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-69002","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\/69002","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=69002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}