{"id":308738,"date":"2020-01-04T11:03:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T05:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=308738"},"modified":"2020-01-04T11:03:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T05:33:48","slug":"oil-prices-jump-after-us-kills-top-iranian-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-jump-after-us-kills-top-iranian-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices jump after US kills top Iranian commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices jumped to the highest level in more than three months on Friday after the US killed a top Iranian military commander in Iraq, sparking fears that escalating conflict in the region could disrupt global oil supplies.<\/p>\n<p>An air strike at Baghdad airport killed Major-General Qassem Soleimani, architect of Iran&#8217;s spreading military influence in the Middle East, with Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowing revenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices jumped to the highest level in more than three months on Friday after the US killed a top Iranian military commander in Iraq, sparking fears that escalating conflict in the region could disrupt global oil supplies. An air strike at Baghdad airport killed Major-General Qassem Soleimani, architect of Iran&#8217;s spreading military influence in the Middle East, with Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowing revenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308738","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}