{"id":27603,"date":"2026-03-03T18:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=27603"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:27:42","slug":"tehran-beirut-judder-from-us-israeli-attacks-as-oil-soars-shares-slide","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/tehran-beirut-judder-from-us-israeli-attacks-as-oil-soars-shares-slide\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran, Beirut judder from US-Israeli attacks as oil soars, shares slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Iranian drones struck the US embassy in Saudi Arabia after previously hitting the mission in Kuwait. Washington responded by shutting both embassies and ordering non-emergency government personnel and their families to leave countries across the \u200cMiddle East.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A day after President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave open-ended answers when asked how long the war would last, a source told\u00a0Reuters\u00a0that Israel&#8217;s campaign had been planned to last two weeks and was moving faster. The source, familiar with Israel&#8217;s war plan, said its aim was to overthrow Iran&#8217;s clerical rulers, and there was no firm deadline to achieve it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But the Israeli military was going through its target list faster than planned, with early success killing Iran&#8217;s leaders and taking out its defences, the source said. Israel was also accelerating its campaign \u200bout of concern Washington might reach a deal with Iran&#8217;s surviving leaders and stop too soon, the source added.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Inside Iran, Israel struck the Tehran headquarters of the state broadcaster IRIB. Israel warned residents in the afternoon to leave \u200bthe Hakimeh district and the area around the capital&#8217;s Mehrabad airport. Shortly afterwards there were explosions in both districts. As Iranians have fled cities, the capital has become a ghost town.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;How \u2060long will this continue? Where are the shelters? Where is the government?&#8221; Bijan, 32, a bank employee, told\u00a0<em>Reuters<\/em>\u00a0by telephone from Tehran. &#8220;Every night my wife and I hide in the basement. The whole city is empty. There is smoke and \u200bblood everywhere.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Firuzeh Seraj said she was afraid to take her 10-year-old daughter for dialysis treatment after a hospital in the capital was struck.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;World, do you see? They are killing us. Hear our voice,&#8221; she said through tears from Tehran.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Global stock markets slid as the disruption of Middle East energy supplies threatened to reignite post-pandemic inflation. The price of crude oil , was up by 17% in two days, and the European wholesale price for natural gas was up a punishing 40%. The S&amp;P 500 fell 2.2% after Wall Street&#8217;s opening. Europe&#8217;s benchmark was down 3.3% in afternoon trading, after a 1.7% drop on Monday. Shares in energy import-dependent South Korea plunged more than 7%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuter&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16416,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-27603","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Explosions tore through Tehran and Beirut on Tuesday and stock markets around the world tumbled while oil prices soared at the prospect of a prolonged disruption to global energy supplies from the United States (US)-Israeli air war against \u200bIran","published_date":"2026-03-03 00:00:00","news_description":"Explosions tore through Tehran and Beirut on Tuesday and stock markets around the world tumbled while oil prices soared at the prospect of a prolonged disruption to global energy supplies from the United States (US)-Israeli air war against \u200bIran","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27605,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27603\/revisions\/27605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=27603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}