Ahmed Zaki Yamani, former Saudi oil minister, dies at 90
Ahmed Zaki Yamani, former Saudi oil minister, dies at 90

Yamani spoke to CNN’s John Defterios in 2010 about the 1973 oil embargo saying, it “was meant, and I was behind it, not to hurt the economy, just to attract the international public opinion that [there] is a problem between the Palestinians and the Israelis.”