{"id":308966,"date":"2020-01-06T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T06:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=308966"},"modified":"2020-01-06T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T06:19:00","slug":"oil-hits-70-as-iran-exits-nuclear-deal-tensions-intensify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-hits-70-as-iran-exits-nuclear-deal-tensions-intensify\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil hits $70 as Iran exits nuclear deal, tensions intensify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil extended its dramatic price surge from Friday as the fallout between the U.S. and Iran escalated after the assassination of one of the Islamic Republic\u2019s most powerful generals.<\/p>\n<p>Futures are up about 6% since Friday, trading above $70 a barrel in London, as the U.S. State Department said there\u2019s \u201cheightened risk&#8221; of missile attacks near military bases and energy facilities in Saudi Arabia. Iran said on Sunday it no longer considers itself bound by the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated with the U.S. and other world powers in the fallout from the killing of General Qassem Soleimani.<\/p>\n<p>Oil\u2019s rising after a more than 20% gain in 2019, as the warning followed a weekend of bellicose rhetoric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil extended its dramatic price surge from Friday as the fallout between the U.S. and Iran escalated after the assassination of one of the Islamic Republic\u2019s most powerful generals. Futures are up about 6% since Friday, trading above $70 a barrel in London, as the U.S. State Department said there\u2019s \u201cheightened risk&#8221; of missile attacks near military bases and energy facilities in Saudi Arabia. Iran said on Sunday it no longer considers itself bound by the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated with the U.S. and other world powers in the fallout from the killing of General Qassem Soleimani. Oil\u2019s rising after [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308966","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\/308966","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=308966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}