Iran threatens the United States with oil. Prices rose to $ 73 per barrel

The spiritual leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that in the event of “incorrect actions” of the United States regarding Iran, oil flow from the fourth oil supplier may stop. The world market immediately responded to these words by rising prices. On Monday night, the price of July futures for oil in the US markets transferred $ 73. A significant increase occurred on European exchanges. In anticipation of the season of hurricanes and the summer automobile season, individual concerns among American consumers are operating the performance of local oil refinery - prices for automobile and heating fuel increased by 1.2%per day.

“Raising prices is a combination of several factors at once, but the most important is of course Iran,” says analyst John Brady from the New York branch of the ABN Amro investment bank. - "We received mixed signals before that, but now the information is definitely very alarming."

This year, a tense situation around the Iranian nuclear program has already led to an increase in oil prices by 20%, however, the fact that the Iranian authorities officially announced their readiness to use oil as weapons of economic pressure seriously worried the traders, since earlier even at times of the extreme tension of Iranian power, they did not intend to stop exports of oil.

The head of the US Foreign Ministry of Condolization Rice Rice calmly commented on Khamenei's statements, reports Ar.

In the US market, prices are also supported by a number of local factors. So before the start of the hurricanes and increased demand for automobile fuel, in a number of large oil refineries, the United States has difficulties in a technical nature that affect productivity.

In these conditions, the organization of oil exporters at its next meeting decided not to reduce the booty, agreeing to work almost at the limit of its capabilities. For the countries of the OPEC participants, further increase in oil prices is also not beneficial, since it, according to economists, will lead to inflation, a slowdown in economic growth and, as a result, a drop in oil demand.

Nevertheless, now it is not always possible to maintain a constant level of production in the participating countries. In Nigeria, the eighth of the country of the oil exporter, for several months now the production has been reduced by a quarter. The reason for this is local rebels that strike oil -producing enterprises of foreign companies. And if earlier the attacks were subjected only to platforms located on the shallows in the Niger delta, now enterprises located far from the shore, previously considered safe.