{"id":660275,"date":"2026-05-01T10:40:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660275"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:10:45","slug":"crude-prices-hit-4-year-high-brent-touches-126-amid-concerns-of-prolong-blockade-of-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-prices-hit-4-year-high-brent-touches-126-amid-concerns-of-prolong-blockade-of-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude prices hit 4-year high, Brent touches $126 amid concerns of prolong blockade of Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices hit a four-year peak on Thursday as concerns intensified over a lengthy disruption to global energy supplies. The rally was ignited by comments from US President Donald Trump, who indicated that a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would continue until Iran agrees to a new nuclear deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re having talks with Iran. They\u2019ve come a long way. The question is whether or not they\u2019re going to go far enough. At this moment, there will never be a deal unless they agree that there will be no nuclear weapons,&#8221; said Trump, as quoted by the US Department of State in a tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices hit a four-year peak on Thursday as concerns intensified over a lengthy disruption to global energy supplies. The rally was ignited by comments from US President Donald Trump, who indicated that a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would continue until Iran agrees to a new nuclear deal. &#8220;We\u2019re having talks with Iran. They\u2019ve come a long way. The question is whether or not they\u2019re going to go far enough. At this moment, there will never be a deal unless they agree that there will be no nuclear weapons,&#8221; said Trump, as quoted by the US Department [&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-660275","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\/660275","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=660275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660277,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660275\/revisions\/660277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}