Saudi Arabia provided Iraq 16 billion dollars during the war against Iran



Baghdad/Orr news

Former Iraqi oil Minister Roy Tayeh Abdel Karim said Iraqi leadership sent to Saudi Arabia in 1983 when the war between Iraq and Iran at the height he had borrowed.

Abdul Karim said: he went to Saudi Arabia with a proposal from the Iraqi Government to entrust Saudi Arabia to sell oil on behalf of Iraq after some Iraqi export outlets.

The former Minister was received by Saudi King after the Suhoor where you encounter visit in Ramadan rather than the Saudi oil export on behalf of Iraq collected a large sum to support the war effort amounted to 16 billion dollars paid by Gulf countries combined.

Abdel Karim denied that the payment then the debt he was formula grant.