{"id":18617,"date":"2026-07-28T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/28\/oil-price-drop-us-iran-tensions-ease\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:00:23","slug":"oil-price-drop-us-iran-tensions-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/28\/oil-price-drop-us-iran-tensions-ease\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Drop 2.5% as US-Iran Tensions Ease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global oil prices fell sharply on Tuesday as tensions between the United States and Iran relaxed, raising hopes for continued energy exports from the region.<\/p>\n<p>West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil for September delivery dropped 2.28 percent, reaching $80.72 per barrel by 4:04 a.m. Eastern Time. Likewise, North Sea Brent crude for the same month declined 2.76 percent, trading at $85.92 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump announced that Washington is currently engaged in &#8220;friendly&#8221; talks with Iran and suggested that a peace agreement between the two sides is possible.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Iranian officials emphasized that the US&#8217;s ongoing naval blockade is considered as &#8220;continuing the war,&#8221; a factor that continues to cast a shadow over the political and economic atmosphere of the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell over 2% after easing US-Iran tensions raised hopes for continued energy exports from the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}