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...from the country for saying so. The man who kicked him out, a noisy nationalist named Hussein Fatemi, is Premier Mossadegh's right bower. Fatemi fancies himself a newsman (he edits Teheran's xenophobic Bakhtar Emrooz). He helped light the fires which roasted the British out of Abadan...
...concessions that were made too late. The Premier, whose mind runs in a deep single track, was committed to nationalization-and much to the surprise of the British, he went through with it, right down to the expulsion of the British technicians without whom the Iranians cannot run the Abadan refinery...
...Ayatulla Kashani is a zealot of Islam who has spent his life fighting the infidel British in Iraq and Iran. He controls the Teheran mobs (except those controlled by the Communists), and his terrorist organization assassinated Razmara. Hussein Makki controls the oil-rich province of Khuzistan, in which the Abadan refinery lies. When the British got out, Mossadegh put Makki in charge of the oil installations. Makki's view on oil: close up the wells, pull down the refinery and forget about it. Neither Makki, Kashani nor Mossadegh has ever shown any interest in rational plans for the economic...
Anti-European isolationism is a possible way out, Brinton believes; "History shows the Japanese doing just this from 1611 to 1833, and the Chinese the same thing for over two centuries. If they cannot run Abadan's refineries themselves, therefore, the Iranians may very well let it go to rust...
...nationalization. And last week Anglo-Iranian and Gulf assured the steady flow of Kuwait oil by signing a 50-50 profit-sharing agreement with the Sheik of Kuwait. By expanding its refineries all over the world, Anglo-Iranian expects to make up by 1953 for the loss of the Abadan refinery...