COLD WAR: IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA. BATTLEFIELD: OPEC

Jun 09, 2011

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Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Ali Al Naimi looks at documents at the beginning of an OPEC meeting in Vienna. (File photo)

By JAMES M. DORSEY
AL ARABIYA

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has become the latest battlefield in the escalating cold war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the 12-member cartel’s two largest producers.

The cold war, …

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