Trump asked Saudi Arabia to increase its oil production

The agreement between Donald Trump and Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz was announced on Twitter on Saturday.

In a Twitter message, the President of the United States writes:

"I just spoke with King Salman of Saudi Arabia and I explained to him that because of the" Anxiety and dysfunction in Iran and Venezuela, I ask Saudi Arabia 2,000,000 barrels, to balance the difference … Prices are too high! He accepted! "

Last week, oil prices in the United States exploded, and on Thursday the price of crude oil surpassed $ 74 per barrel, which has not happened since 2014. The sudden rise in prices is due to various factors in the international oil market that now reaches US service stations, writes CNN .

Saudi Arabia says in a statement to the agency State press on Saturday that King Salman bin Abdul Aziz was contacted by a phone call from Trump.According to the statement, the two discussed the need to "maintain the stability of the oil market."

They should have also been talking about the efforts of the oil-producing countries to make up for possible reductions in the oil supply, but the statement does not contain any confirmation of Donald Trump's data that Saudi Arabia will increaseits oil production.

Iranian director of OPEC, Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, commented on Trump's Twitter message in an interview.

If the Saudis accepted Trump's wish, "that means he's calling them to leave the OPEC," said the director, according to Bloomberg.

"There is no chance that a country can increase its daily output by two million barrels if it does not plan to come out of OPEC," he continues.

The development of Saturday occurs after Saudi Arabia, which has the world's largest oil exports, agreed a few days ago to dramatically increase its oil production. The country has already said that you are going to pump 11 million barrels a day in July, which is a record rate.

This statement was caused by a meeting in Vienna in early June, during which OPEC and Russia agreed that the OPEC countries were going to pump more oil, writes Bloomberg.

Oil prices rose in the United States in the spring. This is due to the collapse of oil production in crisis, causing Venezuela and the exodus of the United States of its nuclear agreement with Iran.

The US Department of Foreign Affairs now insists that other countries stop importing oil from Iran and threaten sanctions against those who continue.