JAKARTA - The head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol, said that the energy crisis currently experienced by the US-Israel war against Iran, has never been felt by the world.
Birol in an interview with the French newspaper, Le Figaro, quoted by Reuters, Tuesday, April 7, said European countries, as well as Japan, Australia, and others, would suffer an energy crisis due to the boiling geopolitics in the Middle East.
However, Birol emphasized that the most at-risk countries are developing countries whose populations will be hit hard by rising oil and gas prices, leading to soaring food prices and general inflation.
This possibility even occurred after IEA member countries agreed last month to release part of their strategic oil reserves amid the Strait of Hormuz affected by the US-Israeli war against Iran.
Since the US-Israel attacked Iran on February 28, 2026, the world's energy-carrying ships have been held around the Strait of Hormuz.
The supply route of 20 percent of the world's fuel and gas, is currently being opened in a limited manner with monitoring from Iran as a country directly bordering the Strait of Hormuz.
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