They are major producers of a natural resource essential to the daily function of most countries around the world.
Explanation:
All the named countries are part of OPEC, an international trade organization consisting of oil exporting countries. OPEC is in charge of influencing the world oil market through the cartelization of supply, that is to say, through the accumulation of more than 50 percent of production in order to unilaterally determine the prices of this good. This organization is fundamentally made up of countries in the Middle East, and responds to the interests of this group of countries, tending to seek to negatively influence the economy of the United States.
