Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman said in an interview that Donald Trump had asked Saudi Arabia to fill in the gap in the event of a drop in Iran's oil exports.

In an interview with Bloomberg on Friday, 5^th of October, while pointing out Iran's seven hundred thousand barrels reduction of oil exports in recent months, the crown prince said Saudi Arabia along with some OPEC members and non-member countries, have increased their production by 1.5 million barrels a day to compensate for the shortage of Iranian oil.

According to Mohammad Bin Salman, the reason for the rise of oil prices in the market is not the issue of Iran and the country's reduced oil exports, but events that have occurred in recent months in Canada, Mexico, Libya, Venezuela, and other countries. He added that Saudi Arabia and Russia have come to an agreement that in the event of a shortage of oil in the market, they will increase their exports and compensate for this shortage.

In one part of this interview, referring to the Donald Trump who recently said “without the support of the United States, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will last only two weeks,” the prince stated: "Saudi had existed before America. We must accept that all friend says good and bad things about you, and you can't have a friend who says 100% good things about you all the time."

The crown prince added that "we do not pay anyone for our security. We buy weapons from the United States; we do not receive our weapons for free. Since the start of the US-Saudi relationship, we have bought everything with money."

He also pointed in another part of the interview that he enjoys working with President Trump, saying that Saudi Arabia and the United States " cooperate well with each other against extremism and terrorism and the negative activities of Iran in the region."