*RIYADH – **Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman warns World ofserious repercussions of a devastating war between Iran and the SaudiArabia.*
* Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said that war with Iran would devastate theglobal economy and he prefers a non-military solution to tensions.*
“If the world does not take strong and firm action to deter Iran, we willsee further escalations that will threaten world interests,” Saudi CrownPrince Mohammed bin Salman ─ known as MBS for short ─ told the CBS program“60 Minutes”.
“Oil supplies will be disrupted and oil prices will jump to unimaginablyhigh numbers that we haven’t seen in our lifetimes,” the crown prince said.
MBS said a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran would be catastrophic for theworld economy.
“The region represents about 30 per cent of the world’s energy supplies,about 20 per cent of global trade passages, about four per cent of theworld GDP. Imagine all of these three things stop,” he said.
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“This means a total collapse of the global economy, and not just SaudiArabia or the Middle East countries.”
MBS said a September 14 attack on Saudi oil facilities, which his countryand the US blamed on Iran, had been senseless.
“There is no strategic goal. Only a fool would attack five percent ofglobal supplies. The only strategic goal is to prove that they are stupidand that is what they did,” said the crown prince.
