Saudi Arabia Offers A Deal To Russia For It To Scale Back It's Support Of The Assad Regime In Syria

Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan (L) meets with Russian President Valdimir Putin on July 31, 2013. Press TV

Saudis Offer Russia Secret Oil Deal If It Drops Syria -- The Telegraph

Saudi Arabia has secretly offered Russia a sweeping deal to control the global oil market and safeguard Russia’s gas contracts, if the Kremlin backs away from the Assad regime in Syria.

The revelations come amid high tension in the Middle East, with US, British, and French warship poised for missile strikes in Syria. Iran has threatened to retaliate.

The strategic jitters pushed Brent crude prices to a five-month high of $112 a barrel. “We are only one incident away from a serious oil spike. The market is a lot tighter than people think,” said Chris Skrebowski, editor of Petroleum Review.

Leaked transcripts of a closed-door meeting between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan shed an extraordinary light on the hard-nosed Realpolitik of the two sides.

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More News On Saudi Arabia Offering A Deal To Russia For It To Scale Back It's Support Of The Assad Regime In Syria

Saudis pressure Russians to drop Syria -- WND
Saudis offer Russia secret oil deal if it drops Syria -- Sydney Morning Herald
Did the Saudis offer to pay Russia to back off on Syria? (+video) -- Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor
Futile or dangerous? Saudi Arabi attempts to seduce Russia with lucrative oil and gas deal -- Al Bawaba
Oil and Terror: Saudis Still Trying to Buy Off Russia on Syria -- Antiwar

My Comment: This is actually old news .... I posted and commented on this story a few weeks ago .... but the focus then was on an arms deal.