{"id":308799,"date":"2020-01-04T11:47:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T06:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=308799"},"modified":"2020-01-04T11:47:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T06:17:41","slug":"oil-price-jumps-on-fear-of-iranian-retaliation-against-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-price-jumps-on-fear-of-iranian-retaliation-against-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil price jumps on fear of Iranian retaliation against US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price of oil surged Friday as global investors were gripped with uncertainty over the potential repercussions after the United States killed Iran&#8217;s top general.<\/p>\n<p>News that Gen Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran&#8217;s elite Quds Force, was killed in an air attack at the Baghdad international airport prompted expectations of Iranian retaliation against US and Israeli targets.<\/p>\n<p>In previous flare-ups in tensions with the US, Iran has threatened the supply of oil that travels from the Persian Gulf to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of oil surged Friday as global investors were gripped with uncertainty over the potential repercussions after the United States killed Iran&#8217;s top general. News that Gen Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran&#8217;s elite Quds Force, was killed in an air attack at the Baghdad international airport prompted expectations of Iranian retaliation against US and Israeli targets. In previous flare-ups in tensions with the US, Iran has threatened the supply of oil that travels from the Persian Gulf to the rest of the world.<\/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-308799","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\/308799","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=308799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}