{"id":658738,"date":"2026-02-20T10:43:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658738"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:43:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:13:54","slug":"oil-rises-to-six-month-high-on-concern-over-potential-us-iran-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-rises-to-six-month-high-on-concern-over-potential-us-iran-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil rises to six-month high on concern over potential US-Iran conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Feb 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Oil prices rose around 2% on Thursday to their highest level in six months, as traders worried about escalating tensions between the United States and Iran, which have stepped up military activity in the oil-producing Middle East. <\/p>\n<p>Brent futures rose $1.25, or 1.8%, to $71.60 a barrel by 1:29 p.m. EST (1829 GMT), while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose $1.22, or 1.9%, to $66.41.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Feb 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Oil prices rose around 2% on Thursday to their highest level in six months, as traders worried about escalating tensions between the United States and Iran, which have stepped up military activity in the oil-producing Middle East. Brent futures rose $1.25, or 1.8%, to $71.60 a barrel by 1:29 p.m. EST (1829 GMT), while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose $1.22, or 1.9%, to $66.41.<\/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-658738","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\/658738","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=658738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}