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conflict to be making big changes," Wirth said. "We do not know how things will be resolved … so we are not going to make rash or immediate changes." That means they're not going
prices, Donald Trump has been seeking to extricate himself from the conflict but is considering more airstrikes to force Tehran to meet his terms. The US president said on Monday that he had delayed
Iran on February 28. Tehran retaliated by closing off the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow channel linking the Gulf to the Gulf of Oman, through which approximately 20 percent of the world’s oil
prices. [According](https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/04/the-big-chart-price-of-oil-through-history/#:~:text=But%20by%202005%2C%20when%20global,global%20financial%20crash%20of%202008.) to an April 17 article by the World Economic Forum, from the mid-1980s when the Tanker War took place, to the start of the new millennium, a barrel
prices have driven up the cost of items made with petrochemicals, everything from textiles to plastics. For some producers in China, costs have gone up 20%. China has enviable oil reserves and the lead
Currently, the ongoing geopolitical conflicts are dealing a heavy blow to world peace and stability and affecting the prospect of the world economy,” he continued. Addressing Cooper, he said her visit would help “move
conflict. Iran was already facing a multi-year drought and decline in precipitation, but the US-Israel war has added to the water woes after desalination plants, water pipelines and other civilian infrastructures were
current ceasefire is not extended. There is little appetite on both sides to go back to war. There are enough signs on the ground that if there is no deal before the truce expires
current situation is unbearable for the United States, while we have not even begun yet,” Ghalibaf, who is considered one of the most influential senior officials in Tehran, said in a social media post
oil supply. “Pharmaceuticals are tied to both petrochemical feedstocks, a large part of which are sourced through the Persian Gulf,” Frederic Schneider, a nonresident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, told
oil production did not recover to pre-war levels until a decade after the conflict while the Iraqi state continued to pay the United Nations-mandated $52.4bn in compensation to Kuwait until 2022. Similarly
conflict could further escalate, despite the near-month-long fragile ceasefire. Tehran has been effectively blocking nearly all shipping from the Gulf for more than two months, after the US and Israel attacked Iran
oil region, the country’s largest oilfield in West Kordofan, resulting in the state in effect falling under RSF control. RSF forces remain present in scattered areas of North Kordofan, including Umm Qarfah, Jabra
conflict, referencing US and Israeli attacks in Iran and Lebanon, including a February airstrike that killed [at least 175 people](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/11/iran-war-missile-strike-elementary-school) at an [Iranian elementary school.](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/03/minab-school-bombing-how-the-worst-mass-casualty-event-of-the-iran-war-unfolded-a-visual-guide) “I’ve just been
currently stranded on either side of the strait, which has been almost completely closed since the start of the war on February 28. On Monday, Iran’s Fars News Agency reported that a US warship
conflict this continent has seen since World War Two, petrol prices are rising, and the global economy is under strain because of knock-on effects of the Iran war. Relations with the UK's former
current official flag but has a different lion-and-sun motif. Iran has threatened to halt matches if unofficial flags are brought in or slogans chanted. ![Fans display pre-revolutionary Iranian flags during the World
Iran. High oil and gas prices and energy shortages triggered by the recent war have created what the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, has called "[the mother of all energy crises
conflict began. Trump says the Strait of Hormuz will reopen "for purposes of mine removal" after the deal is signed on Friday. While a reopening would ease pressure on the world's oil consumers
oil imports and two-thirds of its trade. That geography makes Great Nicobar a potentially valuable sentry for India, watching over the Strait of Malacca. “It is a great place to monitor all the traffic