{"id":500679,"date":"2026-03-03T06:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/500679\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T06:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:22:16","slug":"israel-launches-fresh-strikes-on-tehran-and-beirut-as-us-warns-hardest-hits-on-iran-yet-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/500679\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel launches fresh strikes on Tehran and Beirut as US warns &#8216;hardest hits&#8217; on Iran &#8216;yet to come&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global markets could face upheaval following natural gas haltpublished at 04:29 GMT<\/p>\n<p>04:29 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7e82925c-8434-4739-8e9c-1c7d42a02611.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Suranjana Tewari<br \/>Asia Business Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Loading LNG gas onto tanker, Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar LNG Port\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5e04bdb9-54cd-4bcf-8db9-35f514708fba.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"3872\" height=\"2546\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asia and Europe stand to be the most impacted if it is confirmed that the Strait of Hormuz is closed or oil and gas infrastructure continues to be hit, according to industry analysts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The supply of liquified natural gas (LNG) is of particular concern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Qatar had earlier said it had suspended producing LNG after a reported drone attack from Iran on one of its facilities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Nothing can replace Qatari LNG,&#8221; according to oil analyst Saul Kavonic, Senior Energy Analys at MST Financial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If the shutdown is prolonged, or worse the LNG infrastructure is damaged, it portends a larger gas market shock than in 2022 when Russia turned off pipeline gas to Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A fifth of the world&#8217;s LNG goes through the Strait of Hormuz, and Qatar transports 90% of its LNG exports through the narrow stretch that lies between Oman and Iran. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">China, India, Taiwan and South Korea are among the countries that will be left most exposed in Asia, according to experts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Global markets could face upheaval following natural gas haltpublished at 04:29 GMT 04:29 GMT Suranjana TewariAsia Business Correspondent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-500679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}