{"id":514184,"date":"2026-03-10T02:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/514184\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T02:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:56:26","slug":"oil-prices-fall-as-trump-threatens-iran-with-fire-and-fury-over-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/514184\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices fall as Trump threatens Iran with &#8216;fire and fury&#8217; over Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian cooperation with Iran could strain Moscow&#8217;s relationship with Trumppublished at 23:35 GMT 9 March<\/p>\n<p>23:35 GMT 9 March<\/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\/26b3c970-5f64-42a2-af3b-6442ed5b60c5.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Liza Fokht<br \/>BBC News Russian, reporting from Berlin<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump speaking aboard Air Force One as reporters hold up microphones to him\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3099cd49-5c1f-4b2c-a3d5-f3059af48d61.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, ReutersImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">President Trump, beside Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, on Air Force One<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump\u2019s call with Putin earlier followed several reports indicating that Russia has been helping Iran in its conflict with the US and Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\nOver the weekend, several American outlets, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Associated Press, cited anonymous officials claiming that Moscow was providing Tehran with intelligence that helped it to target military personnel and assets in the Middle East. Russia has not officially confirmed it is helping Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Moscow has condemned the strikes against Iran, calling them a \u201creckless step\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Theoretically, helping Iran attack US targets could strain Moscow\u2019s relationship with the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US and Russia met several times this year for talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine \u2014 talks in which the Kremlin has been hoping Washington would put pressure on Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The White House has not said whether Russia is indeed helping Iran, but insists that such assistance would make little difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIf you take a look at what\u2019s happened to Iran in the last week, if they\u2019re getting information, it\u2019s not helping them much,\u201d Trump said yesterday while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His special envoy, Steve Witkoff, who is leading negotiations with Russia, also stopped short of confirming whether Russia was indeed sharing intelligence with Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, according to Witkoff, he \u201cfirmly\u201d warned Moscow not to help Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian cooperation with Iran could strain Moscow&#8217;s relationship with Trumppublished at 23:35 GMT 9 March 23:35 GMT 9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-514184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514184","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=514184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}