{"id":1712,"date":"2026-04-21T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:19:00","slug":"international-energy-agency-birol-warns-of-the-biggest-energy-crisis-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"International Energy Agency: Birol warns of the &#8220;biggest energy crisis in history&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The war in Iran is causing the worst energy crisis the world has ever faced, the <b>head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Fatih Birol said today.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is really the biggest crisis in history,&#8221; Birol assessed, speaking to France Inter radio station. &#8220;The crisis is already huge, <b>if you combine the impact of the oil crisis and the gas crisis with Russia<\/b>,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the war in the Middle East, navigation in the Sea Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of the world&#8217;s oil and LNG normally passes, has been almost disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>The current crisis adds to the <b>effects of Russia&#8217;s war with Ukraine<\/b> because of which the EU cut off imports of Russian gas.<\/p>\n<p>Birol had indicated earlier in April that he considered the current situation in global energy markets worse than the previous crises of 1973, 1979 and 2022 combined, and warned that the world was preparing to experience a &#8220;black April&#8221;. &#8220;<b>March was very difficult, but April will be much worse<\/b>,&#8221; he had stressed.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the IAE agreed to release a record 400 million barrels of oil from strategic reserves to cope with soaring oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;\/html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war in Iran is causing the worst energy crisis the world has ever faced, the head of the International &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}