{"id":21501,"date":"2026-03-09T12:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/live-updates-trump-calls-oil-price-surge-small-price-to-pay-as-iran-names-new-leader\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:58:59","slug":"live-updates-trump-calls-oil-price-surge-small-price-to-pay-as-iran-names-new-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/live-updates-trump-calls-oil-price-surge-small-price-to-pay-as-iran-names-new-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump calls oil price surge &#039;small price to pay&#039; as Iran names new leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/AP26068452079419-e1773060140147.jpg?w=900\" \/><br \/>Oil prices surged overnight Monday, settling near $100 a barrel as the conflict with Iran shows no signs of slowing down. Energy Secretary\u00a0Chris Wright\u00a0on Sunday downplayed concerns about the Strait of Hormuz\u2019s closure and its effect on energy prices. President Trump called it a &#8220;very small price to pay&#8221; for &#8220;peace&#8221; in a social media&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5773698-trump-house-republicans-miami\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices surged overnight Monday, settling near $100 a barrel as the conflict with Iran shows no signs of slowing down. Energy Secretary\u00a0Chris Wright\u00a0on Sunday downplayed concerns about the Strait of Hormuz\u2019s closure and its effect on energy prices. President Trump called it a &#8220;very small price to pay&#8221; for &#8220;peace&#8221; in a social media&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}