Desert storm was initially a result of the long-running war between Iraq and Iran. Iran and Iraq had been feuding because of religious differences and disagreements as Iraq contained mostly Shia muslims and Iran contained mostly Sunni muslims. Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq at the time, accused Kuwait of siphoning crude oil from the Ar-Rumaylah oil fields, located on their common border. He also accused them of conspiring to keep oil prices low in an effort to have relations with western oil-buying nations. President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt initiated negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait to avoid intervention by the United States and other powers from outside of the Gulf region, caused by the amassing troops from Iraq on the border of Kuwait. After these events, Hussein ordered an invasion into Kuwait on August 2, 1990. This resulted in necessary U.S. enforced military actions. The United States got involved because two-thirds of the Arab League turned to the United States and other NATO members for support.