{
    "byline": "by\n                                                   Dr Umud Shokri",
    "charset": "UTF-8",
    "dir": null,
    "excerpt": "Oil markets are behaving as if the region\u2019s supply problems will soon resolve themselves. That confidence is becoming increasingly difficult to justify.By mid-September 2026, futures prices had repeatedly eased or paused on the basis of limited diplomatic signals, even as three major vulnerabilities were developing at the same time: Iran\u2019s effective control over the Strait of Hormuz, the Houthis\u2019 growing grip on the Bab al-Mandab, and the shutdown of Saudi Arabia\u2019s East\u2013West pipeline after attacks.",
    "lang": null,
    "length": 10188,
    "publishedTime": null,
    "siteName": null,
    "title": "The illusion of redundancy: Why oil markets are misreading Gulf supply risk"
}