{"id":24456,"date":"2026-08-21T11:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=24456"},"modified":"2026-08-21T11:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:44:06","slug":"iran-warns-of-devastating-response-to-impending-us-sanction-barrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=24456","title":{"rendered":"Iran warns of \u2018devastating\u2019 response to impending US sanction barrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><!----><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri Aug 21 2026 07:04:04 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\">19 mins ago<\/time><!----><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\"><!--[-->Oil hits nearly one-month high as Iran tensions keep key Hormuz trade route in focus<!--]--><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--[--><!--[--><!----><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Oil prices rose more than 2% on Thursday to settle at their highest levels in nearly a month amid escalating tensions across the Gulf, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Brent crude futures settled up $2.16, or 2.4%, at $93.78 a barrel, their highest close since July 24. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures for September gained $2, or 2.3%, to settle at $87.83 a barrel, also their highest since July 24.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Oil trading firm Ritterbusch and Associates said new threats from Washington appear \u201cunlikely to sway Iran into relinquishing their primary source of leverage, that being control of the Strait, absent major concessions from the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>\u201cSo, the beat goes on with no resolution in sight that would spur a major decline in oil prices back to levels anywhere close to those prior to the war,\u201d Ritterbusch and Associates told Reuters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--]--><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 mins ago Oil hits nearly one-month high as Iran tensions keep key Hormuz trade&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}