Subject: Re: Vance Failed. No Deal.
If you were the Saudis, would you be comfortable depending on the good will of luminaries like "Bibi", Smotrich, and Katz to be able to export? I wouldn't be comfortable depending on them for a moment.
Dollars are the ultimate incentive, and a pipeline that puts the Iranians out of business? That's a lot of dollars.
BTW more tankers are supposed en route to the US Gulf coast to fill up on oil since the Persian Gulf is blocked.