{"id":717918,"date":"2026-06-21T19:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/717918\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T19:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:56:08","slug":"the-u-s-iran-war-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/717918\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S.-Iran War: By the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Oil prices <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7383152\/iran-israel-us-crude-oil-prices-outlook-markets-trump-hormuz\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">surpassed<\/a> $100 per barrel in early 2026. By contrast, before the onset of the conflict, the prices more consistently hovered around $67 to $71 per barrel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Eight countries\u2014Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman\u2014depend on the Strait of Hormuz for the bulk of their hydrocarbon exports, but the closure has led to <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/04\/05\/strait-of-hormuz-fuel-rationing-oil\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">energy<\/a> shortages and conservation efforts in farther removed countries as well, including Australia, Bangladesh, and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/4\/13\/iran-war-live-us-military-to-block-iranian-port-traffic-in-hormuz-strait\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">called the crisis<\/a> \u201cthe greatest energy security challenge in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>1 million: Lebanese people displaced by the Israel-Hezbollah conflict<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that over a million Lebanese people have been displaced since the start of the U.S.-Iran War. It also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unocha.org\/lebanon\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">estimated<\/a> that close to 1 in 4 people in Lebanon are set to face \u201ccrisis and emergency levels of food insecurity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oil prices surpassed $100 per barrel in early 2026. By contrast, before the onset of the conflict, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,801,803,31737,3,7688,3310,4011,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-717918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-news-desk","tag-oil","tag-oil-prices","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\/717918","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=717918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}