{"id":87264,"date":"2026-04-02T08:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87264"},"modified":"2026-04-02T08:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:54:49","slug":"middle-east-crisis-live-oil-prices-climb-after-trump-defends-iran-war-in-address-to-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/02\/middle-east-crisis-live-oil-prices-climb-after-trump-defends-iran-war-in-address-to-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East crisis live: Oil prices climb after Trump defends Iran war in address to the nation"},"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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-85741\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Trump-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Trump-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Trump-360x202.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Trump.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President used speech to justify the war and offer a timeline for its completion, as he faces falling poll numbers and a global energy crisis.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/middle-east-crisis-live-oil-prices-climb-after-trump-defends-iran-war-in-address-to-the-nation\/ar-AA1ZX3AN?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69ce2af87f21419386db53430a8c80b2&amp;ei=27\"> 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>President used speech to justify the war and offer a timeline for its completion, as he faces falling poll numbers and a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87264","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\/01\/Iran-on-fire.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87264","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=87264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87265,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87264\/revisions\/87265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}