{"id":87091,"date":"2026-03-30T09:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87091"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:20:24","slug":"brent-crude-hits-116-a-barrel-after-trump-says-he-wants-to-take-the-oil-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/30\/brent-crude-hits-116-a-barrel-after-trump-says-he-wants-to-take-the-oil-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent crude hits $116 a barrel after Trump says he wants to &#8216;take the oil in Iran&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1ZHQXV.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6&amp;x=802&amp;y=429&amp;s=568&amp;d=568\" alt=\"Donald Trump told the FT: \u2018Maybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don\u2019t. We have a lot of options.\u2019 Photograph: Nathan Howard\/Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The price of oil has risen sharply to $116 a barrel after Donald Trump said he wanted to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/30\/iran-war-live-updates-trump-oil-kharg-island-houthis-israel-lebanon-middle-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">take the oil in Iran<\/a>\u201d, sending Asian stock markets tumbling.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/news\/brent-crude-hits-116-a-barrel-after-trump-says-he-wants-to-take-the-oil-in-iran\/ar-AA1ZHEC2?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69c9469879ee4f81ae4de92fe8992719&amp;cvpid=c13676f66eb944bd8d2d28f30967c046&amp;ei=43\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The price of oil has risen sharply to $116 a barrel after Donald Trump said he wanted to \u201ctake the oil in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Trump-complains-1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87092,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87091\/revisions\/87092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}