{"id":650797,"date":"2026-08-31T00:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=843510"},"modified":"2026-08-31T00:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:45:15","slug":"us-strikes-iran-brent-cracks-90-as-hormuz-risk-explodes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/us-strikes-iran-brent-cracks-90-as-hormuz-risk-explodes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"US Strikes Iran, Brent Cracks $90 as Hormuz Risk Explodes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/us-strikes-iran-brent-cracks-90-as-hormuz-risk-explodes-again-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"US Air Force F-22 RAPTOR fighter jets\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket launchers near the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday after reportedly spotting preparations for another mining operation, abruptly ending a roughly monthlong lull in direct attacks between Washington and Tehran. Sunday&#8217;s Aug. 30 strikes put military risk squarely back over one of the world&#8217;s most critical energy corridors after more than [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket launchers near the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday after reportedly spotting preparations for another mining operation, abruptly ending a roughly monthlong lull in direct attacks between Washington and Tehran. Sunday&#8217;s Aug. 30 strikes put military risk squarely back over one of the world&#8217;s most critical energy corridors after more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":650798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-650797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}