{"id":658717,"date":"2026-02-18T12:23:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658717"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:53:44","slug":"oil-prices-rise-as-iran-conducts-naval-drills-ahead-of-fresh-us-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-as-iran-conducts-naval-drills-ahead-of-fresh-us-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise as Iran conducts naval drills ahead of fresh US talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil edged higher as traders monitored geopolitical risks before talks between the US and Iran that are expected to resume on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Brent traded above $68 a barrel after its first back-to-back weekly drop this year, while West Texas Intermediate neared $64. Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard are conducting naval drills in the \u201cregion of\u201d the Strait of Hormuz, the vital waterway that ships about a fifth of the world\u2019s barrels, according to the nation\u2019s semi-official Tasnim news agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil edged higher as traders monitored geopolitical risks before talks between the US and Iran that are expected to resume on Tuesday. Brent traded above $68 a barrel after its first back-to-back weekly drop this year, while West Texas Intermediate neared $64. Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard are conducting naval drills in the \u201cregion of\u201d the Strait of Hormuz, the vital waterway that ships about a fifth of the world\u2019s barrels, according to the nation\u2019s semi-official Tasnim news agency.<\/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":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658717","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=658717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}