Saudi Arabia has reopened an oil
pipeline, built by Iraq in
the 1980s, which would allow them to ship crude to terminals on the Red Sea in
the event Iran
tries to block the Straits of Hormuz, Reuters reports on its website Thursday.
The pipeline, which was built during the Iran-Iraq War, hasn't carried crude
since Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Reuters said.
In 2001, Saudi Arabia confiscated the pipeline because of debts owed by Baghdad. Over the past
few years, the pipeline was used to transport natural gas to power plants, the
report said.