Robert Fisk: The Old Partition of the Middle East is Dead. I Dread to Think What Will Follow

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/robert-fisk-the-old-partition-of-the-middle-east-is-dead-i-dread-to-think-what-will-follow-9536467.html

The new Middle Eastern map substantially increases Saudi power over the region's oil, lowering Iraq's exports, raising the cost of oil (including, of course, Saudi oil) and at the expense of a frightened and still sanctioned Iran.