Word: iraqization
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...Syrians said they would start the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s big pipeline pumping again only when the Israelis cleared out of Egypt. The Egyptians said they would start talking about a Suez Canal settlement if the Israelis would pull their remaining troops back from the Gaza strip and from the Egyptian forts commanding the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. The Israelis said they would withdraw their troops if the U.N. would guarantee that Egypt would not use Gaza for a raiding base again and the forts as a strongpoint for blockading Israel's access to its port...
...Western intransigence was forcing Nasser into the arms of the Communists. Simultaneously. Saud began a gingerly effort to organize a loose association of Arab leaders which, while not opposing Nasser, still called for restraint. Saud found common cause for unity even with his old Hashemite enemy, King Feisal of Iraq, in their shared irritation at Nasser's expansive talk of "Arab oil" when, in fact, it was Iraq and Saudi...
...Nasser: that he ask the Syrians not to blow up Tapline, the pipeline that carries a third of Aramco's production through Arabia and Syria to the Mediterranean. Reportedly, Nasser obliged -by making a telephone call to Syria's Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj who agreed. Iraq's Nuri es Said, who waited too long before demonstrating his support of Nasser, saw his pipelines blown up by the Syrian army...
...Suez aftermath, all Middle East states are suffering from loss of oil revenues. Iraq's revenues are down 75%, Kuwait's by 40%, Saudi Arabia's by about one-third. The cut hurts the Saudis seriously, since they have spent their revenues up to the point of overdraft. The U.S. fully expects King Saud to ask for aid, and expects to give...
...made plain that it had not opposed the Anglo-French invasion of Suez just to save Nasser's bacon, and hinted that it was not out merely to restore the status quo ante (see below). The Eisenhower Administration now expects to assist only those countries -say Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and Jordan to start with-which share its determination to bar Soviet aggression and infiltration into the Middle East. In testimony before Congress, Secretary Dulles said that any future aid to Nasser "will depend on whether Egypt's international conduct will be such as to justify help...