{"id":71503,"date":"2026-04-12T10:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/collapse-of-us-iran-talks-heightens-fears-of-prolonged-energy-shock\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T10:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:55:26","slug":"collapse-of-us-iran-talks-heightens-fears-of-prolonged-energy-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/collapse-of-us-iran-talks-heightens-fears-of-prolonged-energy-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"Collapse of US-Iran talks heightens fears of prolonged energy shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices and borrowing costs are expected to rise this week as tankers remain stranded in the Gulf<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/12\/middle-east-crisis-live-us-iran-pakistan-peace-talks-jd-vance-delegation-leaves-without-a-deal\">Middle East crisis live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The failure of the US and Iran to reach a peace deal after marathon negotiations has put markets on alert for further oil and gas price rises.<\/p>\n<p>With large numbers of oil tankers remaining stuck in the Gulf, the US vice-president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jd-vance\">JD Vance<\/a>, blamed the collapse of the talks on Tehran\u2019s refusal to abandon its nuclear weapons programme, while Iranian sources hit back at \u201cexcessive\u201d demands from Washington.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/12\/collapse-us-iran-talks-energy-shock-oil-prices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices and borrowing costs are expected to rise this week as tankers remain stranded in the Gulf Middle East crisis live \u2013 latest updates The failure of the US and Iran to reach a peace deal after marathon negotiations has put markets on alert for further oil and gas price rises. With large numbers &#8230; <a title=\"Collapse of US-Iran talks heightens fears of prolonged energy shock\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/collapse-of-us-iran-talks-heightens-fears-of-prolonged-energy-shock\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Collapse of US-Iran talks heightens fears of prolonged energy shock\">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-71503","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\/71503","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=71503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}