{"id":358489,"date":"2026-03-26T04:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/358489\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:09:18","slug":"asia-braces-for-worst-case-energy-scenarios-as-iran-war-drags-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/358489\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia braces for worst-case energy scenarios as Iran war drags on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governments across Asia are preparing for worst-case energy scenarios that could include a prolonged and severe disruption to supplies, even as the US draws up a plan to end the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea shifted into crisis mode on Wednesday, setting up an emergency economic task force to urgently prepare for adverse scenarios. The Philippines declared a national emergency, citing an &#8220;imminent danger of a critically low energy supply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Japan is reviewing its entire supply chain of petroleum-related products as the likelihood builds of shortages and knock-on effects across the economy, while India\u2019s Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned the war could cause unprecedented challenges for the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Governments across Asia are preparing for worst-case energy scenarios that could include a prolonged and severe disruption to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[337,54,7990,42,87,38087,47,43,5839,15020,114994,40,38,41,39,4374],"class_list":["post-358489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-asia","tag-donald-trump","tag-gas","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-lng","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-southeast-asia","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}