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Above the forest of silvered smokestacks that mark Anglo-Iranian's huge oil refinery at Abadan soar five towering gas pipes. For years flaming pillars of gas have jetted from these pipes, casting a ruddy glow on the night sky. But last week the night sky over Abadan was black. All but a handful of the 3,500 British oilmen who had tended the fires lovingly (and profitably) since they first flamed aloft had gone home. Darkness closed in along the neat cement walks separating the rows of bungalows where they had lived. The only sounds in the deserted...
...July that His Majesty's government would not withdraw from Abadan completely, the British lion seemed ready for an oldtime imperial roar. From Cyprus to the Persian Gulf, British paratroops, marines and warships stood by. They were ready to go into action if Iran tried to seize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s huge refinery...
...nationalization of oil too is understandable." Frye says leaders of the nationalization plan, who protested that Iran was not receiving a fair share of the profits of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, reflected "widespread sentiment" in Iran...
...dispossessed Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. meanwhile announced in London that it would sue oil companies who buy Iranian oil from the Teheran government. London underlined its newly tough position by sending four more destroyers to join the ten warships already cruising in the Abadan area, again hinted that it would open fire, if necessary, to hold on to the British-built, $1 billion refinery...
...Anglo-Iranian, which has not produced a drop from its refinery in these weeks, will cut 70,000 Iranians from its payroll, stop the flow of revenue which accounts for 43% of the Iranian national budget. The British hoped such economic blows would compel a change of heart, perhaps through a change of government. But there was an unpleasant prospect in this plan: a Red-led regime and economic chaos might replace Mossadeq. The septuagenarian Premier himself clung desperately to a belief that Allah, or perhaps the U.S., would somehow retrieve the situation...