Brent crude oil price for the first time since Mordad 2 reached $100 per barrel and once again entered the three-digit range.

The rise in oil and currency prices has occurred while fighting continues in the Persian Gulf and the region. On Tuesday evening, September 17, the United States announced that, following unsuccessful missile attacks by the Islamic Republic on two U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, it destroyed five oil tankers associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.