| | The Arab-American Oil Corporation ([[ARAMCO]]), through U.S. Secretary of the Interior [[Harold Ickes]], got U.S. President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] to agree to [[Lend Lease]] aid to Saudi Arabia, which would involve the U.S. government in Saudi Arabia and create protection for the interests of ARAMCO. <ref>[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/Petroleum/kuniholm.htm "American Oil Interests in the Near East,"] in Bruce R. Kuniholm, The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East: Great Power Conflict and Diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), Chapter III, "The Iranian Context," pp. 178-192.</ref> | | The Arab-American Oil Corporation ([[ARAMCO]]), through U.S. Secretary of the Interior [[Harold Ickes]], got U.S. President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] to agree to [[Lend Lease]] aid to Saudi Arabia, which would involve the U.S. government in Saudi Arabia and create protection for the interests of ARAMCO. <ref>[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/Petroleum/kuniholm.htm "American Oil Interests in the Near East,"] in Bruce R. Kuniholm, The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East: Great Power Conflict and Diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), Chapter III, "The Iranian Context," pp. 178-192.</ref> |