{"id":70958,"date":"2026-04-06T07:56:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/ongoing-war-in-iran-hikes-cost-of-groceries-airfare-gas-more\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:56:39","slug":"ongoing-war-in-iran-hikes-cost-of-groceries-airfare-gas-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/ongoing-war-in-iran-hikes-cost-of-groceries-airfare-gas-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Ongoing War in Iran Hikes Cost of Groceries, Airfare, Gas, More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the ongoing war in Iran, Americans are facing the ripple effects of rising fuel costs, bringing not only the average price of gas to $4.12 a gallon, but airfares are rising and Amazon has added a temporary 3.5% surcharge for third-party sellers. Higher diesel fuel costs are also driving up grocery prices, especially those requiring refrigeration. NBC\u2019s Sam Brock reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the ongoing war in Iran, Americans are facing the ripple effects of rising fuel costs, bringing not only the average price of gas to $4.12 a gallon, but airfares are rising and Amazon has added a temporary 3.5% surcharge for third-party sellers. Higher diesel fuel costs are also driving up grocery prices, especially those &#8230; <a title=\"Ongoing War in Iran Hikes Cost of Groceries, Airfare, Gas, More\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/ongoing-war-in-iran-hikes-cost-of-groceries-airfare-gas-more\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ongoing War in Iran Hikes Cost of Groceries, Airfare, Gas, More\">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-70958","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\/70958","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=70958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}