{"id":540339,"date":"2026-04-20T02:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540339\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:23:08","slug":"oil-prices-jump-after-trump-says-iranian-ship-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540339\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices jump after Trump says Iranian ship seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, Trump said his representatives would be in Pakistan on Monday for negotiations. A White House official said Vice-President JD Vance would lead the US delegation<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Iran&#8217;s state media said Tehran had &#8220;no plans for now to participate&#8221; in the talks, although Iranian officials have not clarified the country&#8217;s position yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Oil markets continue to gyrate in response to oscillating social media posts by the US and Iran, rather than the realities on the ground which remain challenging for oil flows to resume in a rapid fashion&#8221;, analyst Saul Kavonic from financial services firm MST Marquee told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is all part of negotiations, physically playing out in real time on the Strait of Hormuz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Strait of Hormuz remained closed on Sunday, a day after the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said it was ending a temporary reopening over the US blockade, which it said violated the terms of their ceasefire agreement. Iran said it would stay closed until the US ended its naval blockade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump had on Friday said that the naval blockade would continue until a deal was agreed by the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier, Trump said his representatives would be in Pakistan on Monday for negotiations. A White House official said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-540339","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}