{"id":78430,"date":"2026-09-09T02:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/oil-prices-rise-above-100-a-barrel-for-first-time-since-july-as-iran-war-escalates\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:56:09","slug":"oil-prices-rise-above-100-a-barrel-for-first-time-since-july-as-iran-war-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/oil-prices-rise-above-100-a-barrel-for-first-time-since-july-as-iran-war-escalates\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise above $100 a barrel for first time since July as Iran war escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brent crude rises by more than 2% after latest fire between US and Iran in Gulf and Houthi attacks on Saudi cities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/sep\/09\/nats-boss-to-meet-uk-transport-secretary-as-second-day-of-flight-chaos-takes-cancelllations-past-1300-business-live\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The price of oil has risen above $100 a barrel for the first time since July as the escalating conflict in the Middle East threatens further disruption to global supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, rose 2.1% to over $100 a barrel after tensions stepped up in the Gulf amid the latest tit-for-tat exchange of fire between the US and Iran.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/sep\/09\/oil-prices-rise-iran-war-brent-crude-inflation-higher-interest-rates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent crude rises by more than 2% after latest fire between US and Iran in Gulf and Houthi attacks on Saudi cities Business live \u2013 latest updates The price of oil has risen above $100 a barrel for the first time since July as the escalating conflict in the Middle East threatens further disruption to &#8230; <a title=\"Oil prices rise above $100 a barrel for first time since July as Iran war escalates\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/oil-prices-rise-above-100-a-barrel-for-first-time-since-july-as-iran-war-escalates\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oil prices rise above $100 a barrel for first time since July as Iran war escalates\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78430","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=78430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}