Access to Oil - The United States Relationships with Saudi Arabia and Iran

This 1977 report prepared for the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate relates much of the history that affects international relations today.
For the United States, access to secure supplies of foreign oil has become an increasingly vital policy goal with the decline of domestic production and our growing dependence on oil imports. This study evaluates the relationships between the United States and Saudi Arabia and the United States and Iran in terms of their contribution to access to oil.