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on March 3, 2026, 9:30 am
Spineless lying hacks.
At least this is gonna make a lot of people even more pissed off with the deranged orange gibbon and his dicklickers than before.
It's the high oil prices that did it, not the mass murder of innocent men, women and children.
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Oil and gas prices rise on new Iran threat to Gulf shipping
Oil and gas prices continued to rise on Tuesday after an Iranian official said his country would "set fire to anyone who tries to pass through" the Strait of Hormuz as the conflict between his country and the US and Israel continued.
Brent crude prices increased by 3.2% to $80 a barrel while the price of gas surged by 30%.
It follows sharp gains in energy prices on Monday when markets had the first opportunity to react to the US-Israel strikes on Iran early on Saturday and Tehran's retaliation.
Stocks markets in Europe and Asia continued to fall as investors weighed the impact of the conflict on the financial markets and what it could mean for inflation and interest rates.
The UK's FTSE 100 index opened down 1.4%, while Germany's Dax index was 1.7% lower.
Gas prices rose by a third to around 140p a therm. Higher gas prices could put pressure on household energy bills as well as fuel the rate of inflation.
The price of gas had leapt on Monday after QatarEnergy, one of the world's biggest exporters, halted production following "military attacks" on its facilities.
Ebrahim Jabbari, an adviser to the commander-in-chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), told state TV that said ships "should not come to this region. They will certainly face a serious response from us".
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is crucial to the global economy, with about 20% of the world's oil and gas passing through the waterway. But they have come to a halt after several vessels were attacked in recent days.
As well as pushing up prices on global energy markets, the conflict has triggered a rise in how much it costs to transport oil...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5lz0vgy52o
"I won't dignify the attacker's words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile."![]()
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