{"id":506,"date":"2026-05-10T14:39:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2026-05-10T14:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:39:39","slug":"degree-of-complacency-are-supply-chains-prepared-for-impact-of-ongoing-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Degree of complacency\u2019: are supply chains prepared for impact of ongoing Iran war?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The economic warnings are bleak, but full extent of shortages are still not felt for many European countries<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/23\/iran-war-energy-crisis-1970s-oil-shocks-fatih-birol-iea\">biggest energy shock<\/a> in modern history, jet fuel shortages <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/16\/europe-supply-jet-fuel-iran-war-flight-cancellations-iea\">\u201cwithin weeks\u201d<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/14\/iran-war-global-recession-imf-uk-growth-forecasts-oil-prices\">global recession<\/a> \u2013 since Iran throttled shipping flows through the strait of Hormuz at the end of February the economic warnings have become increasingly dire.<\/p>\n<p>Yet 10 weeks on from the first US-Israeli attacks, share indices, companies and governments have been surprisingly sanguine. Every day the divergence grows between the eerie quiet on markets and alarming warnings of an imminent supply chain crunch.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/10\/degree-complacency-supply-chains-prepared-impact-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economic warnings are bleak, but full extent of shortages are still not felt for many European countries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}