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...company might be nationalized, if it did not meet the government's demands for higher royalties, I.P.C. offered Iraq a better deal. The offer: a 50-50 split of the profits -similar to the Aramco-Saudi Arabia arrangement and to the last-minute offer of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. which was ignored by Iran's government...
Strike Wave. In southern Iran the Communists, using loudspeakers, incited 12,000 of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s 80,000 workers into a strike. In Masjid-i-Suleiman strikers asked for a pay rise; at Agha Jari, they wanted control of the A.I.O.C. Transport system. The Reds were concerned only with spreading unrest...
Still not satisfied, Fatimi told newsmen that Anglo-Iranian must go: the Frontists would rather sell the oil to the Russians or leave it in the ground than let the British get it. He indirectly threatened Hussein Ala, who has yet to declare himself on the nationalization question: "Anyone who tries to reverse nationalization will be liquidated...
...latest instalment on our political debt came two weeks ago with a rumpus which left pro-American Premier Razmara dead, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company almost nationalized, and Iranian nationalism more rabid than ever. The United States policy of supporting any government that opposed Communism had backfired completely...
...fact, Iran just does not have the know-how to operate Anglo-Iranian's holdings, which include the world's biggest refinery. Last week's Majlis resolution contained a clause inviting foreign experts to help in nationalization. The experts could scarcely be British or American. If Iran (improbably) turned to Russia for such aid, it would fall victim of a far harsher imperialism than the British ever imposed...