{"id":434899,"date":"2026-07-29T07:40:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/oil-jumps-on-a-report-that-iran-launched-ballistic-missiles-towards-a-us-base-in-jordan-434899\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T07:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:40:04","slug":"oil-jumps-on-a-report-that-iran-launched-ballistic-missiles-towards-a-us-base-in-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/oil-jumps-on-a-report-that-iran-launched-ballistic-missiles-towards-a-us-base-in-jordan-434899\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil jumps on a report that Iran launched ballistic missiles towards a US base in Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Oil prices are quickly higher after a report from Axios that says Iran launched ballistic missiles towards a US base in Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>One report says\u00a0At at 3 ballistic missiles were launched and the Axios report cites a &#8220;US official&#8221;. It also notes that the missiles were intercepted however there is an image circulating that says there was a direct hit on the\u00a0Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Notably, it could be an old image as that base has been confirmed to have been hit earlier in the month.<\/p>\n<p>There is some <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PresstvExtra\/status\/2082227847746277654?s=20\" rel=\"follow\">video doing the rounds<\/a> that appears to show three interceptions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WTI is up nearly 4% in a hurry.<\/p>\n<p>Update: The US military is now out with a statement saying that at 5:45 pm ET, the IRGC fired &#8216;multiple&#8217; ballistic missiles but that all of them were successfully intercepted. That seems to align with video.<\/p>\n<p>There is talk that this is in response to the US targeting Iranian navy boats.<\/p>\n<p>The US is calling it an &#8220;attempted surprise attack&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices are quickly higher after a report from Axios that says Iran launched ballistic missiles towards a US base in Jordan. One report says\u00a0At at 3 ballistic missiles were launched and&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-434899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434899","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=434899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}