Word: hassanal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raising the actual price for most grades by as much as 30%, to $17 or more per bbl. Next week such cartel militants as Iran, Algeria and Libya will press for an additional jump of at least 40%. To make the extortionate price stick, Iran's oil chief, Hassan Nazih, declares that Iranian production, which is now little more than half its prerevolutionary 6.5 million bbl. daily, will be cut even further, perhaps to 3 million...
...reports about Mrs. Javits made hardly a ripple in Tehran, where the regime was preoccupied with more pressing matters. Hassan Nazih, head of the National Iranian Oil Co., decried the regime's tendency to "put all political, economic and judicial problems into an Islamic mold." In the port city of Khorramshahr and in Abadan, site of the world's biggest oil refinery, fighting broke out between ethnic Arabs, who want more autonomy from Tehran, and Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's armed forces; at least 25 people were killed in running gun battles. Because he suffered from exhaustion...
Egyptian and Israeli officers worked amicably together in negotiating the fine points of the transfer of authority over El Arish. "It's easy for each side to get along with each other," said Egyptian Brigadier General Hassan Abdel Fatah. "Some of the Israelis are from Arab countries, and they speak fluent Arabic." On the streets of the city, soldiers of the once rival armies exchanged currency as souvenirs...
...workers feel that they are being neglected by the revolutionary government. They are insisting on 50% to 100% wage increases and are threatening to walk out if they do not get them. Members of the workers' council have been demanding sweeping changes in management. But when NIOC Chief Hassan Nazih fired six of the top directors in April, the rest of the top management resigned en masse in protest, forcing Nazih abjectly to ask everyone back. The refinery simply could not run without them. The workers then immediately voted to strike, but agreed to put off a walkout pending...
...detention a fortnight ago of Taleghani's sons Abul Hassan and Mojtaba, both of whom have ties with radical political factions, and his daughter-in-law that moved Taleghani into outright opposition to the capricious actions...