{"id":279353,"date":"2019-06-22T05:04:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T05:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=279353"},"modified":"2019-06-22T05:04:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T05:04:02","slug":"trump-spoke-to-crown-prince-salman-on-middle-east-stability-oil-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/trump-spoke-to-crown-prince-salman-on-middle-east-stability-oil-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump spoke to Crown Prince Salman on Middle East stability, oil market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump spoke on Friday to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about Middle East stability and the oil market, the White House said, after tensions with Iran prompted a rise in oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two leaders discussed Saudi Arabia&#8217;s critical role in ensuring stability in the Middle East and in the global oil market. They also discussed the threat posed by the Iranian regime&#8217;s escalatory behaviour,&#8221; White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The phone call took place in the wake of Iran&#8217;s shooting down of an unmanned U.S. drone in the Gulf region, which prompted Trump to prepare but ultimately hold back from launching a retaliatory attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump spoke on Friday to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about Middle East stability and the oil market, the White House said, after tensions with Iran prompted a rise in oil prices. &#8220;The two leaders discussed Saudi Arabia&#8217;s critical role in ensuring stability in the Middle East and in the global oil market. They also discussed the threat posed by the Iranian regime&#8217;s escalatory behaviour,&#8221; White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement. The phone call took place in the wake of Iran&#8217;s shooting down of an unmanned U.S. drone in the Gulf region, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}