Battle for the Gulf - A Summer Cloud

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At the end of the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq was close to bankruptcy because of President Saddam Hussein’s military spending and his attempts to build nuclear weapons. As an oil-rich country, Hussein tried to refill his coffers by selling oil at the highest possible price, but he blamed the Emir of Kuwait of flooding the market with cheap oil, lowering prices and hastening Iraq’s descent into economic crisis. The Iraqi foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, said Iraq started to realize that there was a conspiracy against them by Kuwait, organized and devised by the U.S. Hussein issued the Emir of Kuwait with a stark warning—“each dollar less in the price of oil means to us one billion dollars in revenue for a year. If you do not mean to wage a war against Iraq, please stop it.” But the Emir refused and a month later, Hussein’s inner circle decided that unless Kuwait handed over $10 billion to Iraq immediately, they would invade.