{"id":768347,"date":"2026-07-17T13:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/768347\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:44:08","slug":"iran-strikes-us-allies-brent-crude-oil-prices-continue-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/768347\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran strikes US allies, Brent crude oil prices continue to rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 hour agoAt least eight killed in Iranian strikes on U.S. ally<\/p>\n<p>Iran killed at least eight people in attacks on America&#8217;s Kurdish allies in Iraq, the region&#8217;s president reported.<\/p>\n<p>Nechirvan Barzani, the president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/wave-attacks-irans-irgc-raises-questions-about-renewed-kurdish-insurgency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kurdistan Region of Iraq<\/a>, condemned the strikes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Targeting the region and the resumption of violence are a serious escalation and a blatant violation of Iraq\u2019s sovereignty,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi air defenses shot down Iranian drones over Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, the Times of Israel reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 hour agoAt least eight killed in Iranian strikes on U.S. ally Iran killed at least eight people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,4,27304,829,2413,3,21,19,22,20,25,24,965],"class_list":["post-768347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-breaking-news","tag-current-news","tag-latest-news","tag-national-news","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768347","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=768347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}