{"id":73949,"date":"2026-05-24T05:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T10:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/with-oil-markets-nearing-the-danger-zone-a-us-iran-deal-cant-come-soon-enough-heather-stewart\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T05:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T10:05:21","slug":"with-oil-markets-nearing-the-danger-zone-a-us-iran-deal-cant-come-soon-enough-heather-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/with-oil-markets-nearing-the-danger-zone-a-us-iran-deal-cant-come-soon-enough-heather-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"With oil markets nearing the danger zone, a US-Iran deal can\u2019t come soon enough | Heather Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global prices are approaching a tipping point that could trigger inflation, shortages and, over time, recession<\/p>\n<p>If a US-Iran deal is about to be reached, three months on from the launch of Donald Trump\u2019s Operation Epic Fury, it will not be a day too soon for oil markets, which are approaching a dangerous tipping point.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of a barrel of crude on the spot market \u2013 for immediate purchase, effectively \u2013 has bounced about $100 since Iran predictably responded to the onslaught from the US and Israel by closing the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/24\/oil-markets-danger-zone-us-iran-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global prices are approaching a tipping point that could trigger inflation, shortages and, over time, recession If a US-Iran deal is about to be reached, three months on from the launch of Donald Trump\u2019s Operation Epic Fury, it will not be a day too soon for oil markets, which are approaching a dangerous tipping point. &#8230; <a title=\"With oil markets nearing the danger zone, a US-Iran deal can\u2019t come soon enough | Heather Stewart\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/with-oil-markets-nearing-the-danger-zone-a-us-iran-deal-cant-come-soon-enough-heather-stewart\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about With oil markets nearing the danger zone, a US-Iran deal can\u2019t come soon enough | Heather Stewart\">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-73949","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\/73949","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=73949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}