Oil prices rise as Israel vows to intensify attacks on Iran

Following the order of the Israeli army to intensify the attacks on Iran by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, oil prices increased by about 3% on Thursday, and investors followed signs of whether the US would increase participation in the conflict.

Global criterion for oil, BrentSince January 22, the highest closing barrel is $ 2.15 or 2.8%to be closed at $ 78.85. US Crude Oil It increased by 3.2% per barrel to $ 77.58.

Netanyahu ordered Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz to intensify the attacks on “strategic objectives” and “government targets” in Iran in Tehran, Israeli Defense Minister. Social Media Post. The aim of the strikes, “Weaken Ayatullah’s regime,” he said.

The decision to raise Israel’s military operation against the Islamic Republic is coming after an Iranian missile Reported that he hit a large hospital Southern Beersheba. Katz threatened Iran’s leader Ayatullah Ali Khanei after the hospital strike.

Katz said that Israel’s army was “instructed and this man should not continue to exist to achieve all his goals.”

President Donald Trump still thinks if the USA will order the US strike to Iran’s nuclear program. “I can, I can, so nobody knows what to do.”

. The White House said Thursday The President will decide that he will decide on strike on Iran within two weeks.

JPMorgan warned that the change of the regime in the country, which produces a large oil like Iran on Wednesday, has a deep impact on global oil prices. Iran is one of the best manufacturers in OPEC.

“If history serves as a guide, further destabilization of Iran can lead to a significant oil prices for a long time,” Natasha Kaneva, President of Global Commodity Studies in JPMorgan. He said.

Kaneva, after the regime change supply losses, “it becomes difficult to recover quickly, further supports high prices,” he said.