The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (762 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005GIH4UU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 420 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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But the Shah's economy depended almost entirely on oil, and the U.S. On the advice of Treasury Secretary William Simon and against the advice of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Ford made a deal to sell advanced weaponry to the Saudis in exchange for a modest price hike on oil. He details the secret U.S.-Saudi plan to circumvent OPEC that destabilized the Shah. European economies were hit even harder by the soaring oil prices, and several NATO allies were at risk of default on their debt. sold Iran missiles and fighter jets. more cheaply and break the OPEC monopoly, which the Shah refused to do. The U.S. One man the U.S. had embarked on a long relationship with the autocratic Saudi kingdom that continues to this day. And it shows how the Ford Administration barely averted a European debt crisis that could have triggered a financial c
A Nixon-Kissinger circular firing squad. Eric C. Petersen First rate - Cooper has done a great job assembling this story (one most of the senior U.S. officials involved seem to have conveniently forgotten in their biographies) of how the United States gave the Shah carte blanch to buy any-and-all U.S. weapons (save nukes) to act as a U.S. surrogate in the Persian Gulf area: With things going rapidly down hill in Vietnam a. "and its author Andrew Scott Cooper has done a great job in putting them all together in a fairly" according to mehdi. With over 100 pages of notes and bibliography this book is well sourced and its author Andrew Scott Cooper has done a great job in putting them all together in a fairly well written manner, that is mostly based on his factual findings and very little about his own views and biases. Which is in stark contrast with most of the books that have been written regarding t. "Nixon, Kissinger, Ford, the Shah, and the Saudis. It was Kissinger in the Palace with the Oil Can" according to NeoFeudalSerf. Author Andrew Scott Cooper's first book "Oil Kings" is surprising well written and entertaining. The book is primary about the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his dealings with President Richard Nixon and the duplicitous Henry Kissinger. The book centers around a secret deal between the Shah, Nixon, and Kissinger which allowed Iran to purchase best of clas