Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran's Middle Eastern neighbors the conflict has served to intensify longstanding divisions within the Arab world. Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich gulf states have supported Iraq in the contest, while Syria and Libya have stood by Iran. If the war should spread, it could conceivably destabilize the entire gulf region. For the Soviet Union, which has 25 military divisions on its border with Iran, the prolonged and debilitating fighting offers a host of opportunities to exploit weaknesses on both sides...
Even more threatening, from the point of view of such conservative gulf states as Saudi Arabia, are Iran's stepped-up efforts to export its particular brand of Islamic revolution. There is abundant evidence that Tehran believes that the war with Iraq offers a unique opportunity for fomenting fundamentalist coups d'étât in other Muslim states. A recent appeal for volunteers issued by the Islamic Guards called on Iranians to help enable "the Islamic revolution to open the gates of freedom to the oppressed peoples of the region." Last December police in the tiny, prosperous...
Mitterrand's decision to speak on behalf of the Palestinians while in Israel was altogether in character. On a state visit to Saudi Arabia last year, he was not afraid to stress France's unwavering commitment to Israel's security. In Jerusalem, he told the Knesset that it was up to the Palestinians to decide who would speak for them, but that the Palestine Liberation Organization could not hope "to sit at the negotiating table as long as it denies Israel's right to exist...
...been waging a war of attrition for 18 months, and Iran two weeks ago reduced its oil price by $2 per bbl. to increase sales, raise money and pay for the fighting. Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi last week let off a tirade against the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, which he accused of producing too much oil and driving down prices. He said that the oil producers now face an "economic blockade" ordered by America and executed by Saudi Arabia. Production by the 13 members of OPEC has fallen from a high of 31 million...
...critical participant at the upcoming meeting will be Saudi Arabia. With 40% of OPEC's production, the Saudis are the key to any plan to reduce production and hold up prices. It was the Saudis, in fact, who forced OPEC's price reduction from $36 per bbl. to $34 per bbl. last October. The Saudis have trimmed production to about 7.5 million bbl. daily from a high of 10.5 million last summer, but experts feel that they would have to cut output to 7 million or even 6 million bbl. to dry up the glut and stop...