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...about the Harriman mission before it started, was now openly skeptical. After the Iranian offer, he went around to see Foreign Minister Bagher Kazemi with a several-day-old irrelevant message about the World Court decision on Iran (TIME, July 16) and complaints against treatment of British personnel in Abadan. Kazemi rushed to tell Mossadeq, who was so upset that he did what he usually does on such occasions: he promptly fainted...
...Council to end Egypt's blockade of Israeli-bound ships passing through the Suez Canal. Israel charged that the blockade violated the Egyptian-Israeli armistice agreement, the Suez Canal convention and, by preventing Middle East oil from reaching the Haifa refinery (second in the Middle East only to Abadan), endangered Western Europe's oil supply...
...month ago, Makki was sitting behind a rickety desk in a shabby room in downtown Teheran. Now he was taking over the billion-dollar Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., including the great Abadan refinery, which daily takes 500,000 barrels of crude oil at one end, and from the other pours gasoline, asphalt, kerosene at the rate of 2½ tank cars a minute. Makki is not an engineer but a politician, and busy letting everyone know that he expects to be the next Prime Minister. The "engineers" on his "temporary board of directors" last week included a mechanical engineer with...
Next: Harriman? To give the Iranians time to think things over, the British had cut Abadan's output to 25% of capacity, thus postponing still further the day when the huge plant will have to shut down for lack of storage facilities. But Mossadeq, Makki & Co. were in no mood to be reasonable. At The Hague, the International Court of Justice had just handed down an interim decision on Britain's appeal against nationalization. Ten of the twelve sitting judges recommended a truce: Britain and Iran should set up a joint board to supervise operation of the oilfields...
Guns Next to Peashooters. In Abadan, meanwhile, the remaining 2,200 British executives and technicians stewed at 125° F. in the shade and waited hopelessly for the break they knew would not come. One moment the Iranians wanted them to stay and work for the new Iranian National Oil Co., the next buffeted them savagely; looters boldly snatched packing cases while the police did nothing; Anglo-Iranian helplessly reported that $28,000 worth of refinery machine parts were being stolen every week...