India, Feb. 12 -- Oil prices held steady on Thursday amid simmering tensions between the United States and Iran.
WTI crude futures were little changed at $64.65 after rising over 1 percent in the previous session on heightened Middle East tensions. Benchmark Brent crude futures slid 0.1 percent to $69.35 a barrel.
As U.S.-Iran talks stall and Israel demands missile restrictions, tensions in the Middle East continue to rise.
Iran's security chief Ali Larijani has accused Israel of attempting to sabotage negotiations with the United States over Tehran's nuclear program, so it can ignite a new war that would destabilize the region.
"Our negotiations are exclusively with the United States - we are not engaged in any talks with Israel," he s...