The Oil Drum: A Credible Threat?: Saudi Arabia Threatens Iran with Economic War

Stuart Staniford returns and says: “So I was awoken from my peak-oil slumber by this fairly extraordinary oped in the Washington Post. It consists of a series of threats by Nawaf Obaid, a “an adviser to the Saudi government”, who is expressing opinions that are “his own and do not reflect official Saudi policy”, but nonetheless speaks in short clear declarative sentences about what the Saudi government will do if the US withdraws from Iraq. […] A shooting war between Saudi Arabia and Iran would certainly make for interesting times in the oil markets…
Much more after the jump to The Oil Drum.