The National Interest: America's policy towards Riyadh has failed

Referring to the close relationship between Tehran and Riyadh, the American publication wrote that Washington's policy towards Saudi Arabia has failed. The National Interest wrote in an analysis entitled "The failed policy of the United States towards Saudi Arabia is based on the principle of obtaining oil in exchange for security. With the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1990, the United States hoped that Saudi Arabia would fulfill these requirements. In exchange for hospitality, friendship, and a supply of reasonably priced oil, the Saudis received American protection and weapons, colloquially known as “security oil.”

Relations between America and Saudi Arabia have been stable for about two and a half decades. region, America no longer needs a forward base, and the only thing keeping the partnership between Washington and Riyadh alive is Saudi Arabia's huge oil reserves and its leadership in OPEC, and Riyadh's oil policy runs counter to US interestsThe National Interest continued that the United States needs cheap oil, otherwise the country's economy will stop, and Saudi Arabia is directly involved in maintaining the price of oil. fuel, as well as in the form of unprecedented inflation in this country over the past 40 years.Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, unexpectedly announced a day before the alliance's ministerial meeting on April 3 that it would voluntarily cut oil production from May until the end of 2023.