{"id":253042,"date":"2026-04-13T11:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=253042"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:23:44","slug":"oil-prices-rise-by-over-7-amid-blockade-of-traffic-to-and-from-iran-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/253042\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise by over 7% amid blockade of traffic to and from Iran ports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oil prices climbed above $100 a barrel on Monday as the US Navy prepared to block ships to and ‌from Iran via the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Brent crude futures rose $6.96, or 7.3%, to $102.16 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate was up $8.12, or 8.4%, at $104.69 a barrel.<\/p>\n

Trump has said the price of oil and gasoline may remain high through November’s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oil prices climbed above $100 a barrel on Monday as the US Navy prepared to block ships to and ‌from Iran via the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters writes. Brent crude futures rose $6.96, or 7.3%, to $102.16 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate was up $8.12, or 8.4%, at $104.69 a barrel. Trump has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":252859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253048,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253042\/revisions\/253048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}