Saudi Crown Prince to Trump: We've Replaced All Iran's Lost Oil

‘We did our job and more,’ crown prince says in interview
Trump has criticized OPEC for allowing crude prices to rally

Oil pipes at Aramco's Ras Tanura terminal on Oct. 1.Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg

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By Nayla Razzouk and Stephanie Flanders

October 5, 2018 at 5:30 PM UTC

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October 6, 2018 at 12:22 PM UTC

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Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, facing U.S. pressure to tame surging oil prices, insisted that the kingdom is fulfilling promises to make up for Iranian crude supplies lost to American sanctions.

“The 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,” Mohammed Bin Salman, heir to the Saudi throne, said in an interview late Wednesday. “And that happened.”