How Trump’s War With Iran Changed the World in a Week

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The conflict is reshaping travel patterns, energy dependencies, living costs, trade routes and diplomatic alliances.

Since President Trump launched a new war with Iran, he has portrayed it as a shock-and-awe assault with few lasting consequences, especially for Americans. On Monday in Florida, he called it a “brief disruption.”

Experts say it is rapidly becoming something else entirely: a jolt to the global security order and economy that far exceeds those delivered by other recent conflicts in the Middle East.

Mr. Trump’s war, now nearly two weeks old, is already reshaping travel patterns, energy dependencies, living costs, trade routes and strategic partnerships. Countries typically shielded from regional conflict, like Cyprus and the United Arab Emirates, have faced retaliatory Iranian fire. The fallout could disrupt midterm elections in the United States, tilt the war calculus in Ukraine and force China into a major economic pivot.

Those effects may compound if Mr. Trump presses ahead with the war, particularly if Iran escalates its counterattacks and blocks ship traffic through the critical oil passage of the Strait of Hormuz. Some economists are already invoking a dreaded memory for any U.S. president — the specter of oil-shock-induced stagflation, with growth stalling and prices roaring upward. » | Jim Tankersley | Reporting from Berlin, Washington and London’s Heathrow Airport | Wednesday, March 11, 2026

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Gas Prices Continue to Surge in U.S., Rising 14% in a Week

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Soaring oil prices suggest that more increases could be in store for American drivers. Diesel, jet fuel, and other refined products are also becoming much more expensive.

The price of gas in the United States reached an average of $3.41 per gallon on Saturday, a day after crude oil prices soared to levels not seen since 2023 as the spillover from the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran continued.

That gain means gasoline has jumped 14 percent in the past week, according to data from the AAA motor club. The prices recorded Saturday were the highest for gasoline since 2024.

The suddenly rising energy costs — everything from jet fuel to diesel for trucks and tractors is more expensive — are rooted in supplies of crude oil coming from the Persian Gulf. The tankers that normally carry oil out of the region are not sailing, cutting the world off from about one-fifth of its oil supply.

That’s led to a surge in oil prices globally. By Friday, the U.S. crude benchmark, called West Texas Intermediate, had climbed more than 35 percent for the week, to settle at $90.90 a barrel, with much of that gain coming on Friday alone. The last time crude was trading at those levels, gasoline in the United States was above $3.80 a gallon, the data from AAA shows. » | Emmett Lindner | Saturday, March 7, 2026

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U.S. Employers Cut Jobs in Sign of a Shakier Economy

THE NEW YORK TIMES: A weaker-than-expected report for February showed a decline of 92,000 jobs, and a rise in the unemployment rate to 4.4 percent.

Job growth fizzled in February, a sign of unexpected weakness in the labor market.

Employers cut 92,000 jobs in February, the Labor Department reported on Friday, and the unemployment rate rose to 4.4 percent. The job losses cut across nearly all major sectors, including health care, which was weighed down by a nurses strike in California.

The report dimmed the picture of the labor market and all but shut down the prospect of a resurgence in growth after an anemic year of hiring that was weighed down by economic uncertainty. Many economists had forecast that employers would shake off their reluctance to hire this year.

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El líder de España Pedro Sánchez intensifica su disputa con Trump

THE NEW YORK TIMES: El presidente del gobierno español ha arremetido contra los ataques de EE. UU. e Israel, y se ha negado a participar incluso después de que Trump amenazara a Madrid con represalias económicas.

Captura de pantalla tomada de este artículo del NYT. | El presidente del gobierno español, Pedro Sánchez, hablando en Madrid en febrero. Sánchez, que se enfrenta a conflictos políticos en su país, ha intentado distinguir sus políticas de las del presidente Trump.Credit...Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters
Durante más de un año, el presidente del gobierno español, Pedro Sánchez, se ha posicionado como líder de la resistencia de la izquierda europea al presidente Donald Trump.

Mientras Trump aumentaba las deportaciones, Sánchez ofrecía a los migrantes indocumentados una vía para obtener la residencia. Mientras el presidente de Estados Unidos defendía a las empresas tecnológicas estadounidenses, Sánchez intentaba restringirlas. Y el pasado fin de semana, Sánchez se negó a que los aviones de guerra estadounidenses utilizaran España como plataforma de lanzamiento de ataques contra Irán, lo que hizo que Trump amenazara con poner fin al comercio con España.

El miércoles, esas tensiones llegaron a su punto álgido cuando Sánchez pronunció un discurso especial a la nación en el que condenó la campaña contra Irán y reiteró su negativa a participar a pesar de las amenazas de Trump de tomar represalias económicas.

“No vamos a ser cómplices de algo que es malo para el mundo, y que también es contrario a nuestros valores e intereses, simplemente por el miedo a las represalias de alguno”, dijo Sánchez en el discurso televisado.

“Ni siquiera están claros los objetivos de quienes lanzaron el primer ataque”, añadió Sánchez, refiriéndose a Estados Unidos e Israel. » | Por Jason Horowitz | Reportando desde Madrid | 4 de marzo de 2026

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EU Says It Supports Spain Whilst Refusing to Disagree Fully with Trump | DW News

Mar 5, 2026 | Spain has denied US claims from the United States that Madrid has agreed to cooperate with the US military. President Donald Trump had threatened to cut off trade links, after Spain refused to allow the United States to use its airbases to attack Iran. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Spain has now backed down.

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The Economist: Will the Iran War Spread across the Middle East?

Mar 3, 2026 | The war in Iran is already reverberating across the Middle East.

From surging oil and gas prices to threats against Gulf trade routes and rising regional tensions, the conflict is having far-reaching effects beyond Iran’s borders.

Our editors examine whether the war can be contained, or if the region is heading towards a wider war.

Global Markets Tumble After U.S. Warns War Could Last Weeks

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Oil and gas prices surged and stock markets fell, after U.S. and Israeli officials signaled that strikes on Iran would intensify. As the conflict widened, Israel’s military stepped up operations against Iran-backed Hezbollah, which fired rockets into Israel.

Global stock markets tumbled on Tuesday and the price of oil surged, as the widening conflict in the Middle East sent a shudder through the world economy and American and Israeli officials signaled that their bombing campaign against Iran could last weeks.

President Trump was set to meet with Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany in Washington on Tuesday morning, the president’s first meeting with a foreign leader since the war began, and the two were expected to speak with reporters. The meeting was long planned, but is likely to be dominated by discussions of the attacks on Iran, which continued for a fourth day.

With Iran retaliating for the killing of its supreme leader, the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia warned of imminent drone and rocket attacks in Dhahran, the eastern city that is home to Saudi Aramco, the government-controlled oil producer, threatening to put more pressure on global oil supplies. The embassy itself was hit by a drone attack early Tuesday, a day after a drone struck the U.S. embassy in Kuwait, prompting the United States to announce that it was closing both facilities.

Fighting escalated between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military said that it was carrying out additional strikes in Iran, and had targeted weapons storage facilities in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, as Hezbollah said it had fired attack drones at Israel. Israel’s advance in southern Lebanon prompted fears that it could be weighing a wider ground assault similar to the one it launched during its yearlong war with Hezbollah that ended in late 2024. Iran Live Updates » | Aaron Boxerman, Helene Cooper and Yan Zhuang | Tuesday, March 3, 2026