{"id":434014,"date":"2026-07-18T00:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/iran-targeted-a-ship-trying-to-pass-through-hormuz-tasnim-434014\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T00:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:47:27","slug":"iran-targeted-a-ship-trying-to-pass-through-hormuz-tasnim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/iran-targeted-a-ship-trying-to-pass-through-hormuz-tasnim-434014\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran targeted a ship trying to pass through Hormuz &#8211; Tasnim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The escalation is showing no signs of stopping in the Middle East. There were reports that Iran targeted Kuwait yesterday and hit a desalization plant and now Iran&#8217;s semi-official Tasnim says that the Revolutionary Guard targeted a ship that ignored warning and tried to pass through Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Oil is having another big day with WTI up $3.53 to $82.48.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hanging onto reports that Israel possibly leading Lebanon could set the stage for a deal but there&#8217;s also a report that the US is preparing to fly more refuelling planes to Israel in order to escalation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Aside from oil, perhaps the bigger story is the crack spread was the 3-2-1 crack is now above $70 per barrel, the highest in history. That means that even with oil prices at $80, the price of fuel is likely to be as high &#8212; or higher &#8212; than at the peak of the war. That means the deflation from the May-July drop in crude prices will never reach companies or consumers but instead will be entirely captured by refineries.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The escalation is showing no signs of stopping in the Middle East. There were reports that Iran targeted Kuwait yesterday and hit a desalization plant and now Iran&#8217;s semi-official Tasnim says that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}