Tag: drive up oil prices

Putin Selling S-300s to Iran to Destabilize Middle East and Drive Up Oil Prices, Piontkovsky Says

April 16, 2015

Staunton, April 16 – Vladimir Putin says his decision to sell S-300 air defense missiles to Iran will stabilize the situation in the Middle East, but an analysis by Andrey Piontkovsky strongly suggests that it will have exactly the opposite effect and drive up the price of oil and that that outcome is why Putin […]