{"id":4508,"date":"2015-01-14T06:54:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T11:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4508"},"modified":"2015-01-14T06:54:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T11:54:49","slug":"iran-will-weather-oil-price-slide-saudi-arabia-will-suffer-rouhani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4508","title":{"rendered":"Iran will weather oil price slide, Saudi Arabia will suffer \u2013 Rouhani"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/222331-iran-oil-price-fall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iran will weather oil price slide, Saudi Arabia will suffer \u2013 Rouhani<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that Iran can cope with the economic turmoil of falling oil prices, adding that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will be harder hit.<\/p>\n<p>Rouhani said that while oil now only accounts for one-third of Tehran\u2019s budget, some of the Gulf states are up to 95 percent reliant on it.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf Iran suffers from the drop in oil prices, know that other oil-producing countries such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will suffer more than Iran,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that\u00a0<em>\u201cKuwait\u2019s budget is 95 percent reliant on oil,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and 90 percent of Saudi Arabia\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cannual exports are related to oil.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/business\/222067-oil-record-drop-trading\/\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE: Oil plummet: Crude dives below $45 for first time since 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rouhani was addressing a crowd in the southern city of Bushehr \u2013 home to a nuclear power plant built with the help of the Russians, which became operational in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that falling prices for crude oil are the result of\u00a0<em>\u201ca plot that will be overcome with unity and resistance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThose [countries] who have planned the oil price reduction against some countries should know that they will regret it,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said, without elaborating on what countries he meant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran will weather oil price slide, Saudi Arabia will suffer \u2013 Rouhani Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that Iran can cope with the economic turmoil of falling oil prices, adding that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will be harder hit. Rouhani said that while oil now only accounts for one-third of Tehran\u2019s budget, some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2578,441,1606,1775,694,701,2662],"class_list":["post-4508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-hassan-rouhani","tag-iran","tag-kuwait","tag-oil-price-collapse","tag-russia","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-tehran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4509,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions\/4509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}