{"id":9766,"date":"2026-03-20T18:27:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/closure-of-strait-of-hormuz-is-greatest-global-energy-security-threat-in-history-warns-iea-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T18:27:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:27:03","slug":"closure-of-strait-of-hormuz-is-greatest-global-energy-security-threat-in-history-warns-iea-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/closure-of-strait-of-hormuz-is-greatest-global-energy-security-threat-in-history-warns-iea-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Closure of Strait of Hormuz is &#8216;greatest global energy security threat in history,&#8217; warns IEA chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, ahead of a press conference on global energy market developments in Brussels, March 6, 2026.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">YVES HERMAN\/REUTERS<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">&#8220;We are facing the greatest global energy security threat in history&#8221;: The bleak warning comes from one of the world&#8217;s leading energy market watchdogs. In an interview with <em>Le Monde <\/em>on Friday, March 20, Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), bluntly summed up the scale of the crisis triggered by the war in the Middle East. In just&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/economy\/article\/2026\/03\/20\/closure-of-strait-of-hormuz-is-greatest-global-energy-security-threat-in-history-warns-iea-chief_6751653_19.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, ahead of a press conference on global energy market developments in Brussels, March 6, 2026. YVES HERMAN\/REUTERS &#8220;We are facing the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3261,3049],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}