{"id":659642,"date":"2026-03-25T10:05:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659642"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:35:55","slug":"oil-price-dips-brent-slips-below-100-as-trump-delays-strike-on-iranian-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-price-dips-brent-slips-below-100-as-trump-delays-strike-on-iranian-power-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil price dips! Brent slips below $100 as Trump delays strike on Iranian power plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices tumbled sharply on Monday after US President Donald Trump ordered a five-day halt to planned military strikes on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure, easing fears of escalation in the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude fell more than 15% during the session, dropping to a low of $96 per barrel, breaking below the $100 mark for the first time since 11 March. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) also slid 13.5%, falling to a session low of $85.28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices tumbled sharply on Monday after US President Donald Trump ordered a five-day halt to planned military strikes on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure, easing fears of escalation in the Middle East conflict. Brent crude fell more than 15% during the session, dropping to a low of $96 per barrel, breaking below the $100 mark for the first time since 11 March. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) also slid 13.5%, falling to a session low of $85.28.<\/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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659642","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=659642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}