{"id":59736,"date":"2026-05-02T21:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=59736"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:11:11","slug":"tebbounes-case-closed-remark-on-uaes-opec-exit-goes-viral-across-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=59736","title":{"rendered":"Tebboune&#8217;s &#8216;Case Closed&#8217; Remark on UAE&#8217;s OPEC Exit Goes Viral Across Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has sparked a major social media buzz across the Arab world, particularly in Saudi Arabia, after dismissing the UAE&#8217;s withdrawal from OPEC as a non-event during an exclusive media briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The UAE&#8217;s withdrawal from OPEC and OPEC+ is no event, because the pillar of Arab nations within OPEC is our brotherly Kingdom of Saudi Arabia&#8230; the speech is over and the book is closed,&#8221; Tebboune told dzwatch.<\/p>\n<p>The statement instantly trended on X, with prominent Saudi news pages including <em>Akhbar Al-Saudia<\/em> and <em>Ajel Al-Saudia<\/em> rushing to share the video clip. Energy consultant Naif Al-Dandani, a member of the Advisory Council for Petroleum Engineering at King Saud University, also amplified the remarks, underlining Saudi Arabia&#8217;s pivotal role in OPEC.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Saudi journalists, activists, and media pages praised Tebboune&#8217;s stance, with one page writing: &#8220;The Algerian President delivers a slap to the UAE over its OPEC exit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has sparked a major social media buzz across the Arab world, particularly in Saudi Arabia, after dismissing the UAE&#8217;s withdrawal from OPEC as a non-event during an exclusive media briefing. &#8220;The UAE&#8217;s withdrawal from OPEC and OPEC+ is no event, because the pillar of Arab nations within OPEC is our brotherly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}