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Depleted stockpiles stoke global oil supply anxiety
The renewed US-Iran conflict is jeopardizing global oil supplies due to depleted stockpiles, reducing market buffers. Anxiety grows over Iran potentially closing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a key oil shipment route, as noted by a Middle East scholar.
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