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Under pressure from the US to lower oil prices,\u00a0Saudi Arabia says it has already replaced\u00a0Iranian crude lost to US sanctions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

The announcement was made by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who told Bloomberg\u00a0in an interview that his country and other producers had raised output by about 1.5 million barrels per day, offsetting an estimated 700,000 barrels per day taken off world markets due to anti-Iran sanctions.<\/p>\n\n

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\u201cThe request that America made to Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries is to be sure that if there is any loss of supply from Iran, that we will supply that. And that happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cIran reduced their exports by 700,000 barrels a day, if I\u2019m not mistaken. And Saudi Arabia and OPEC and non-OPEC countries, they\u2019ve produced 1.5 million barrels a day. So we export as much as 2 barrels for any barrel that disappeared from Iran recently. So we did our job and more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

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Speaking at a rally in Mississippi on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said Saudi Arabia and King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud would not last \"for two weeks\" without US military support.<\/p>\n\n

Back in May, Trump pulled his country\u00a0out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), despite objections from other signatories of\u00a0the accord.<\/p>\n\n

In August, Washington re-imposed the first round of anti-Iran sanctions it had lifted under the JCPOA.\u00a0The second phase of US bans will come into effect next month.<\/p>\n\n

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The Trump administration has called on all buyers of Iranian oil to cut imports to zero.\u00a0Earlier this week, oil prices\u00a0hit a four-year high, with the international benchmark\u00a0Brent\u00a0topping $86 per barrel.<\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2018-10-07 09:53:16","content_date_finish":"2018-10-07 09:53:16","content_date_register":"2018-10-07 10:02:05","content_date_last_edit":"2018-10-07 10:32:52","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"0","content_show_related_img":"0","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"1","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"0","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"1535009570","attach_date_register":"2018-10-07 10:01:45","attach_id":"4751","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"600","attach_img_height":"400","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"1557","visit_date_last":"2024-11-24 22:25:37","attach_title":"Saudi Arabia says met US demand to replace Iran oil 2","node_title":"Favorite,Ordinary","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":126, \"left\":64, \"right\":65},{\"node_id\":127, \"left\":66, \"right\":67}]","node_number":"2","allowable_node":"2"}]]