{"id":76780,"date":"2026-03-21T05:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/20\/iran-war-shocks-across-globe-effects-key-takeaways"},"modified":"2026-03-21T05:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:04:44","slug":"how-the-iran-war-has-sent-shocks-rippling-across-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76780","title":{"rendered":"How the Iran war has sent shocks rippling across the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From restaurant closures in the Philippines and petrol rationing in Sri Lanka, to  Asian food production crises due to fertiliser shortages, the effects of the US-Israeli war on Iran reverberate around the world<\/p>\n<p>From the Philippines cutting down to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/06\/philippines-orders-energy-cuts-middle-east-war-fuel-prices\">a four-day week<\/a> to save electricity, to restaurants in India taking gas-intensive dishes off the menu, and rents being frozen in Spain, the economic fallout of the US-Israeli war on Iran has reverberated around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Facing an existential threat, Tehran has retaliated by closing the vital Hormuz shipping lane and bombing its oil and gas-rich neighbours, compounding a deepening crisis abroad for businesses and families.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/20\/iran-war-shocks-across-globe-effects-key-takeaways\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From restaurant closures in the Philippines and petrol rationing in Sri Lanka, to  Asian food production crises due to fertiliser shortages, the effects of the US-Israeli war on Iran reverberate around the worldFrom the Philippines cutting down to a fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5228,"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":[657,62,88,55,532,674,93,3510],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-industry","category-india","category-japan","category-philippines","category-south-africa","category-sri-lanka","category-thailand","category-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76780","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\/5228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76784,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76780\/revisions\/76784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}