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===Emergency sales to Israel===
According to the 1975 [[Sinai Interim Agreement]] signed by the United States and [[Israel]], as a precondition for Israel's return of the [[Sinai Peninsula]] and its associated oil reserves to [[Egypt]], in an emergency the United States was obligated to make oil available for sale to Israel for up to five years.<ref>{{cite web |last = Phillips |first = James |url = http://www.heritage.org/Research/MiddleEast/bg76.cfm |title = The Iranian Oil Crisis |publisher = [[The Heritage Foundation]] |date = February 28, 1979 |access-date = February 25, 2012 |url-status = unfit |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100126173509/http://www.heritage.org/Research/MiddleEast/bg76.cfm |archive-date = January 26, 2010 }}</ref> Israel has never invoked the agreement {{citation needed|date=November 2021}}, however. The agreement was extended in 1979, 1994, 2004, and, most recently, in 2015 for a ten-year period.<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/323545 |title = US and Israel Sign Extension of Oil Supply Agreement |date = April 17, 2015 |publisher = Israel National News |access-date = June 21, 2016 }}</ref>