Saudi plans toย become a major gas exporter within a decadeย raise questions about what the real goal of the kingdomโs policy, and by extension that of the US, is towards Iran.
Debilitating hostility between Saudi Arabia and Iran is about lots of things, not least who will have the upper hand in a swath of land stretching from Central Asia to the Atlantic coast of Africa. While attention is focused on ensuring that continued containment of Iran ensures that Saudi Arabia has a leg up, geopolitics is but one side of the equation. Natural gas is the other.