IEThe Irish Times
Oil advances as Trump takes aim at Iran’s economy
‘Economic warfare’ intended to crush Iran’s economy
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- 20 Aug 2026, 05:47 UTC
- Last checked
- 20 Aug 2026, 06:47 UTC
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- 1 version
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- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 20 Aug 2026, 05:38 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Rong Wei Neo and Nicholas Lua
- Section
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‘Economic warfare’ intended to crush Iran’s economy
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Oil advances as Trump takes aim at Iran’s economy
‘Economic warfare’ intended to crush Iran’s economy
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- Capture ID
- #351
- Observed
- 20 Aug 2026, 05:47 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 636,873 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
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- metadata and excerpt