{"id":76679,"date":"2026-03-12T12:40:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/12\/asia-energy-crisis-iran-war"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:40:56","slug":"asia-scrambles-to-confront-energy-crisis-unleashed-by-iran-war-with-no-end-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76679","title":{"rendered":"Asia scrambles to confront energy crisis unleashed by Iran war \u2013 with no end in sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From fuel caps to four-day work weeks, the Middle East conflict has left the world\u2019s top crude oil importing region desperate to shore up supplies<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has scrambled in recent days to reassure the world that the economic impact of his war on Iran can be contained.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, one of the most important waterways in global trade has, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/10\/trump-free-flow-energy-fails-restart-shipping-strait-hormuz\">in effect, been shut for almost two weeks<\/a> \u2013 but it might reopen before long. In the meantime, US oil-related sanctions on \u201csome countries\u201d will be lifted. And besides, the entire conflict <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/09\/us-israel-strikes-iran-supreme-leader\">could be over soon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/12\/asia-energy-crisis-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From fuel caps to four-day work weeks, the Middle East conflict has left the world\u2019s top crude oil importing region desperate to shore up suppliesDonald Trump has scrambled in recent days to reassure the world that the economic impact of his war on Ira&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,327,82,60,55,222,93,3510,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bangladesh","category-myanmar","category-pakistan","category-philippines","category-south-korea","category-thailand","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76680,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76679\/revisions\/76680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}