The oil kings
by Andrew Scott Cooper · first published 2011
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This is an account of an era we thought we knew: how the US decision in the mid-1970s to choose Saudi Arabia as the dominant oil power in the Mideast ultimately led to the Islamic revolution in Iran, and how oil came to dominate U.S. domestic and international affairs. The author draws on newly declassified documents and interviews with some key figures of the time to show how Nixon, Ford, Kissinger, the CIA, and the State and Treasury departments, as well as the Shah of Iran and the Saudi royal family, maneuvered to control events in the Middle East. He details the secret U.S.-Saudi plan to c
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…Gulf Arab states and the USA (and also, though this is largely forgotten, the Shah of Iran was a major player in that system before being deposed by the Iranian Revolution). Andrew Scott Cooper's The Oil Kings covers that in some detail: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12348743-the-oil-kings It's very relevant today as the spike in oil prices is fairly similar, and current US tensions with Saudi Arabia…
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