{"id":535826,"date":"2026-03-12T15:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535826\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:55:09","slug":"irans-new-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei-releases-first-statement-vows-to-keep-blocking-strait-of-hormuz-oil-prices-could-reach-record-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535826\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei releases first statement, vows to keep blocking Strait of Hormuz; Oil prices could reach record highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are waiting to see whether US President Donald Trump responds explicitly to the remarks from Iran\u2019s new supreme leader.<\/p>\n<p>Moments before the statement was broadcast, Trump took to Truth Social and said he would not let Iran destroy the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,\u201d Trump posted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBUT, of far greater interest and importance to me, as President, is stoping [sic] an evil Empire, Iran, from having Nuclear Weapons, and destroying the Middle East and, indeed, the World. I won\u2019t ever let that happen!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump on Wednesday.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b5ddf12cdf2082c356b91d88a82e3abe217d4a96.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>US President Donald Trump on Wednesday.AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are waiting to see whether US President Donald Trump responds explicitly to the remarks from Iran\u2019s new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-535826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}