{"id":8181,"date":"2012-03-31T19:16:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T02:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8181"},"modified":"2012-03-31T19:16:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T02:16:21","slug":"saudi-oil-fields-may-go-up-in-flames-as-king-abdullah-agitates-conflict-with-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8181","title":{"rendered":"Saudi oil fields may go up in flames as King Abdullah agitates conflict with Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Clinton in Saudi amid oil supply concerns<\/strong><br \/>\n30 March, 2012 &#8211; Al-Akhbar<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Saudi Arabia&#8217;s king and foreign minister in Riyadh on Friday to discuss the Syria conflict against a backdrop of tension with Iran and oil policy differences.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s main superpower and its top oil exporter have been strategic allies since the 1940s, but discord over how to respond to Arab popular uprisings strained relations last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both sides have recognized that their common interests are much more significant than the issues that have recently been dividing them,&#8221; said Robert Jordan, US ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2001-03, citing anti-terrorism cooperation, concerns over a nuclear Iran, and wider Middle East stability.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures broadcast on state television showed Clinton meeting King Abdullah as other officials, including Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, Defense Minister Prince Salman, and Intelligence Minister Prince Muqrin, looked on.<\/p>\n<p>Although the two states have mended the rift, differences persist on regional policy and how to tackle high oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and other consumer countries fear Saudi Arabia may cut oil output if they release emergency reserves, neutralizing their effort to cool world energy markets.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomats and industry sources said Western countries may want Clinton to seek reassurances that the Saudis will not undercut their bid to cut their fuel costs. <a href=\"http:\/\/english.al-akhbar.com\/content\/clinton-saudi-amid-oil-supply-concerns?\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D8181&amp;text=Saudi+oil+fields+may+go+up+in+flames+as+King+Abdullah+agitates+conflict+with+Syria&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton in Saudi amid oil supply concerns 30 March, 2012 &#8211; Al-Akhbar US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Saudi Arabia&#8217;s king and foreign minister in Riyadh on Friday to discuss the Syria conflict against a backdrop of tension with Iran and oil policy differences. The world&#8217;s main superpower and its top oil exporter have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8181#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2802],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8183,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions\/8183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}