{"id":71534,"date":"2026-04-13T02:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/oil-price-tops-100-a-barrel-after-us-iran-talks-fail-and-trump-orders-strait-of-hormuz-blockade\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T02:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:57:31","slug":"oil-price-tops-100-a-barrel-after-us-iran-talks-fail-and-trump-orders-strait-of-hormuz-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/oil-price-tops-100-a-barrel-after-us-iran-talks-fail-and-trump-orders-strait-of-hormuz-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil price tops $100 a barrel after US-Iran talks fail and Trump orders strait of Hormuz blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Navy to impose blockade today in bid to choke off flow of Iranian oil <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/13\/strait-of-hormuz-blockade-what-why-explained-navy-trump-iran\">Explainer: strait of Hormuz blockade<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/apr\/13\/oil-price-barrel-trump-naval-blockade-strait-of-hormuz-stock-markets-ftse-latest-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oil prices have jumped back above $100 a barrel after weekend talks between the US and Iran ended without an agreement and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/12\/trump-says-us-will-blockade-strait-of-hormuz-as-iran-peace-talks-fail\">Donald Trump imposed a blockade of the strait of Hormuz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The US president announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/13\/strait-of-hormuz-blockade-what-why-explained-navy-trump-iran\">blockade on Sunday, targeting Iranian vessels<\/a> and ships that have paid a toll to Iran for passage through the strait, in an attempt to choke off the flow of Iranian oil.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/13\/oil-price-tops-100-dollars-barrel-us-blockade-strait-of-hormuz\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Navy to impose blockade today in bid to choke off flow of Iranian oil Explainer: strait of Hormuz blockade Business live \u2013 latest updates Oil prices have jumped back above $100 a barrel after weekend talks between the US and Iran ended without an agreement and Donald Trump imposed a blockade of the strait &#8230; <a title=\"Oil price tops $100 a barrel after US-Iran talks fail and Trump orders strait of Hormuz blockade\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/oil-price-tops-100-a-barrel-after-us-iran-talks-fail-and-trump-orders-strait-of-hormuz-blockade\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oil price tops $100 a barrel after US-Iran talks fail and Trump orders strait of Hormuz blockade\">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-71534","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\/71534","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=71534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}