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Oil prices rebound on Iran concerns
by Staff Writers
Singapore (AFP) Feb 29, 2012


Oil prices rebounded in Asian trade Wednesday as concerns over crude producer Iran's nuclear programme crept back into the market, analysts said.

New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in April, gained 49 cents to $107.04 in the afternoon and Brent North Sea crude for April delivery was up 75 cents to $122.30.

Prices had been retreating since Monday on profit-taking and worries that high energy costs could erode demand and hurt the global economy, but the concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions continued to haunt investors.

"Despite the retreat in prices in the past few days, the Iranian situation is still playing on people's minds," said Justin Harper, market strategist at IG Markets Singapore.

"Concerns are creeping up over the need to find alternative sources if there is a supply disruption," he told AFP.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday warned that a nuclear-armed Iran would control the major Gulf oil producers, send energy prices soaring, and "choke" the global economy.

"Anyone who is interested in stopping the manipulative use of oil production, its influence on world markets, the threats to the world's economies, must also for that reason enlist to stop Iran's nuclear race," Netanyahu told a conference on environmentally friendly growth.

Western countries have imposed a raft of sanctions on Iranian oil exports in a bid to halt its controversial nuclear programme, which they say masks a bid to build atomic weapons.

Tehran denies this charge and says its nuclear programme is solely for peaceful civilian purposes.

Iran's leaders have warned they could close the Strait of Hormuz -- a key transit route for global oil supplies -- if increased Western sanctions halt Iranian oil exports.

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