{"id":308531,"date":"2020-01-03T11:33:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T06:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=308531"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T06:03:56","slug":"oil-prices-surge-after-us-strike-kills-iranian-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-surge-after-us-strike-kills-iranian-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices surge after US strike kills Iranian general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices soared more than 4% today and equities reversed early gains following news that the US had killed a top Iranian general, fanning fresh fears of a conflict in the crude-rich region.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Iran&#8217;s Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, was hit in an attack on Baghdad&#8217;s international airport early Friday, according to Hased, a powerful Iraqi paramilitary force linked to Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Donald Trump tweeted a picture of the American flag, and the Pentagon said he had ordered Soleimani&#8217;s killing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices soared more than 4% today and equities reversed early gains following news that the US had killed a top Iranian general, fanning fresh fears of a conflict in the crude-rich region. The head of Iran&#8217;s Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, was hit in an attack on Baghdad&#8217;s international airport early Friday, according to Hased, a powerful Iraqi paramilitary force linked to Tehran. Later, Donald Trump tweeted a picture of the American flag, and the Pentagon said he had ordered Soleimani&#8217;s killing.<\/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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308531","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=308531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}